Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He was also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He was regarded as Israel’s most famous living author.
Oz’s work has been published in 42 languages in 43 countries, and has received many honours and awards, among them the Legion of Honour of France, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Israel Prize. In 2007, a selection from the Chinese translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness was the first work of modern Hebrew literature to appear in an official Chinese textbook.
Since 1967, Oz had been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Books in order of publication:
Non-fiction
In the Land of Israel (essays on political issues)
Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays (1995). Previously published as Whose Holy Land? (1994).
Under This Blazing Light (1995)
Israeli Literature: a Case of Reality Reflecting Fiction (1985)
The Slopes of Lebanon (1989)
The Story Begins: Essays on Literature (1999)
A Tale of Love and Darkness (2002)
How to Cure a Fanatic (2006)
Jews and Words (20 November 2012), with Oz-Salzberger, Fania. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land (2017), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
What’s in an Apple (Conversations with Shira Hadad), 2018
Fiction
Where the Jackals Howl (1965)
Elsewhere, Perhaps (1966)
My Michael (1968)
Unto Death (1971)
Touch the Water, Touch the Wind (1973)
The Hill of Evil Counsel (1976)
Soumchi (1978)
A Perfect Peace (1982)
Black Box (1987)
To Know a Woman (1989)
Fima (1991)
Don’t Call It Night (1994)
Panther in the Basement (1995)
The Same Sea (1999)
The Silence of Heaven: Agnon’s Fear of God (2000)
Suddenly in the Depth of the Forest (A Fable for all ages) (2005), English translation by Sondra Silverston (2010)
Rhyming Life and Death (2007)
Scenes from Village Life (2009)
Between Friends (2012)
Judas (2014)
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