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מוטי קיקיון
Noam Partom
Born in Tel Aviv in 1986. A poet, translator, and performer. Partom is the recipient of the 2015 Israeli Culture Ministry Award for Emerging Poets and the 2014 Ramat Gan Award for a Debut Poetry Book. She graduated from Tel Aviv University’s creative writing program, Helicon School of Poetry, and Rimon Academy for Jazz and Contemporary Music. In addition to the poetic-musical show, Songs from the Bidibom, which she created in collaboration with the composer Yonathan Cnaan, Partom also stands behind PoeTube – the online filmed poetry project. Her debut book, Setting the Water on Fire, was published by Xargol/Am Oved in October 2012, and has since been reprinted three times. She recently published a Hebrew translation of Shel Silverstein’s book of poems for children, Every Thing on It, in Modan Publishing, for which she received the 2016 International Andersen Award.
