Roy Hasan

{{short description|Israeli contemporary Hebrew poet (born 1983)}}

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{{Infobox writer

| name = Roy Hasan

| image = Roy Hasan at an event, 2017.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1983|04|09}}

| birth_place = Hadera, Israel

| occupation = Poet, writer

| genre = Poetry

| native_name = רועי חסן

| native_name_lang = he

}}

Roy Hasan ({{Langx|he|רועי חסן}}; born 9 April 1983, in Hadera, Israel) is an Israeli contemporary Hebrew poet. He is a principal member of the Ars poetica literary movement.{{cite news|last1=Berkovich|first1=Ilan|title=Roy Hasan Is the Hebrew Poet of Our Generation|url=http://www.haaretz.com/.premium-1.676967|accessdate=17 December 2015|publisher=Haaretz|date=23 September 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Benaim|first1=Rachel|title=The Mizrahim Are Finding Their Voice|url=http://www.thetower.org/article/the-mizrahim-are-finding-their-voice/|accessdate=17 December 2015|publisher=The Tower Magazine|date=December 2015}}{{cite news|last1=Margolin|first1=Madison|title=The Mizrahi Thorn in the Side of Israeli Left Read|url=http://forward.com/culture/320255/the-mizrahi-thorn-in-israels-leftist-side/#ixzz3ubLLEfwB|accessdate=17 December 2015|publisher=The Forward|date=3 September 2015}} In 2015 Hasan was awarded the 2015 Bernstein Prize.

Hasan grew up in a Mizrahi family in a lower-class neighborhood in a lower-class town, and worked as a cook during his mandatory military service. He continue to work as a low-paid cook after returning to civilian life. His poetry is regarded as part of a Mizrachi rebellion against the Ashkenazi and elitist Israeli left-wing political and literary establishment.