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• AMOS OZ
• INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED
• ISREALI WRITER
• Yonca Nice

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Background Information

• Born in 1939 in Jerusalem
• Family included scholars and teachers, some of
  whom were militant right-wing Zionists.
• Family immigrated in early 1930s from Russia
  and Poland
• At age 15 left home to live on a kibbutz

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JERUSALEM
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LIFE ON KIBBUTZ

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Background InformationCont.

• Studied Philosophy and Literature at the Hebrew
  University in Jerusalem
• Since the Six Day War in 1967, Amos Oz has been
  actively involved with various groups within the
  Israeli Peace Movement. He has been one of the
  leading figures of "Peace Now" since its founding
  in 1977

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Background InformationCont.

• Fought on the Sinai front during the Six Day War
  in 1967, as a reserve soldier in a tank unit.
• Also on the Golan Heights in the Yom Kippur War
  in 1973
• Devoted 25 years to Kibbutz Hulda, divided his
  time to writing, farming, and teaching in the
  Kibbutz High School
• 1986 left Kibbutz for the benefit of his sons
  health
• Lives in southern town Arad, he is a full
  Professor and holds the Agnon Chair of Hebrew
  Literature at the Ben-Gurion University

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Literary Work

• Published 18 books in Hebrew,
• 450 articles and essays in Israeli and
  international magazines and newspapers which have
  been translated into 30 languages in over 35
  countries.

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Literary Work

• 1965 Where The Jackals Howl a collection of
  short stories. which won him his first literary
  award, a keen readership and a strong literary
  opposition
• 1966 Elsewhere Perhaps As a stage adaptation,
  it was a major theatrical event in Tel-Aviv in
  1982.

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Literary Work

• 1968 My Michael perhaps his best known novel
• immediately caused a literary and political storm
  
• Over 105,000 copies of the Hebrew edition have
  been sold
• Published, often more than once, in America and
  various other countries
• made into a wonderful film by Dan Wollman in 1975
  

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Literary Work

• 1971 Unto Death A volume of two novellas
• considered by many to be some of Oz's most
  powerful writing.
• 1973 Touch the Water, Touch the Wind, caused
  another literary controversy in Israel
• 1976 The Hill Of Evil Councel brought Amos Oz
  the prestigious Brenner Prize for Literature

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Literary Work

• 1978 Soumchi first children's book -a story of
  love and adventure
• 1979 Under This Blazing Light collection of
  articles and essays on literary, ideological and
  political issues
• 1982 A Perfect Peace
• 1983 In the Land of Israel comprises a series
  of essays in which Amos Oz describes a journey he
  made through his own troubled country during
  Israel- Lebanon War

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Literary Work

• 1987 Black Box has broken all records in Israel
  
• Immediately went to No. 1 on the best seller
  lists in Israel
• Translated in to 18 different languages
• Black Box won Amos Oz the Prix Femina Etranger,
  France's top literary award for the best foreign
  novel of that year

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Literary Work

• 1987 The Slopes of Lebanon a collection of
  essays on Israeli and world politics, the Middle
  East Conflict, and the Holocaust
• 1989 To Know a Woman
• 1991 Fima
• 1994 Don't Call It Night
• 1995 Panther in the Basement short novel about
  the last year of the British Administration in
  Jerusalem

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Literary Accomplishments

• 1991 elected a full member of the Academy of the
  Hebrew Language
• 1992 awarded the German Friedenspreis, one of the
  most important international peace prizes, which
  was presented to him by the German President,
  Richard von Weizsacker.
• 1997 awarded the French cross of the Knight of
  the Légion d'Honneur by President Jacques Chirac

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Summary

• Amos Ozs background information
• Literary Work
• Literary Accomplishments

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