Atar Hadari was born in Israel, raised in England and studied poetry and playwrighting with Derek Walcott at Boston University. He is a Pen Translates Award winning and highly experienced translator of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays. “Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of H. N. Bialik” (Syracuse University Press) was a finalist for the American Literary Translators’ Association Award and his “Lives of the Dead: Poems of Hanoch Levin” won a Pen Translates award in 2016 and appeared from Arc in June and was reviewed here: https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/268141/hanoch-levin-poetry

Awarded the first British Centre for Literary Translation’s Mentorship in Hebrew, he spent 2015 translating the classic Hebrew novel by Haim Hazaz, “The Gallows” with Nicholas de Lange, an extract of which appeared in Kenyon Review last December. He contributes a Hebrew bible translation column to MOSAIC magazine and is currently in the 3rd year of a PhD on the translation of Deuteronomy by William Tyndale at Liverpool Hope University. His adaptations of Yiddish plays have won a Mentor Playwrigfhts Project award at the Mark Taper Forum and his adaptation of "God of Vengance", "Merciful Father" won a European Foundation of Jewish Culture award and was produced in New York by UpTheatre, Manhattan.

His experience includes financial translation for The Marker/Haaretz Business page, historical translations for Benzion Netanyahu and literary speech translation for David Grossman, as well as lyric translations from the longest running Hebrew musical, 'Solomon and the Cobbler'.