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Mois Benarroch was born in Tetouan, Morocco in 1959. At age thirteen, he moved to Israel with his parents and has lived in Jerusalem ever since. He began writing poetry at fifteen, first in English, then in Hebrew and finally in his native Spanish. He published his first poems in 1979. In the 1980s he was part of several avant-garde groups and was one of the editors of Marot magazine. His first book in Hebrew, whose title translates as Songs of the Immigrant, was published in 1994. He also put out two books of short stories, several books of poems in Hebrew, English and Spanish, and four novels. In 2008 he received the Prime Minister”s Prize in Israel.  His published works in Spain include Esquina en Tetuán (Esquío, 2000) and in 2005 the novel Lucena (Lf ediciones). In 2008, Destino published his novel En las puertas de Tánger. And in 2010, Escalera published Amor y exilios. Mois Benarroch, novelist, poet, translator, has been honored with the Prime Minister”s Prize (2008) and the Yehuda Amichai Prize for Poetry (2012).