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Amos Oz

Israel (1939 - 2018)

Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He was a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2008 he received an Honorary Degree from the University of Antwerp. He also received the Dan David prize in 2008 for "Creative Rendering of the Past".

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Elsewhere, Perhaps (1966)
   My Michael (1968)
   Touch the Water, Touch the Wind (1974)
   Soumchi (1980)
   A Perfect Peace (1982)
   Black Box (1988)
   To Know a Woman (1989)
   Fima (1991)
   Under This Blazing Light (1995)
   Don't Call It Night (1996)
   Panther in the Basement (1997)
   The Same Sea (2001)
   A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004)
   Rhyming Life and Death (2009)
   Suddenly In the Depths of the Forest (2010)
   Between Friends (2013)
   Judas (2016)

Collections

   Where the Jackals Howl (1965)
   Unto Death (1971)
   The Hill of Evil Counsel (1978)
   The Amos Oz Reader (2009)
   Scenes from Village Life (2011)

Anthologies edited

Until daybreak (1984)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Amos Oz

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 (2014)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Daniel Handler

Award nominations

2017 International Booker Prize (nominee) : Judas

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The Liar (2019)
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