Amos Oz
| Amos Oz עמוס עוז |
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Oz in 2005
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| Born | Amos Klausner May 4, 1939 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Occupation | Writer, Novelist and Journalist |
| Nationality | Israeli |
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| Spouse | Nily Oz-Zuckerman |
Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; May 4, 1939) is an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He is regarded as Israel's most famous living author.
Oz's work has been published in 42 languages, including Arabic, in 43 countries. He 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 has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Amos Klausner (later Oz) was born in 1939 in Jerusalem, where he grew up at No. 18 Amos Street in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood.
His parents, Fania (Mussman) and Yehuda Arieh Klausner, were immigrants to Mandatory Palestine, who met while studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His father's family was from Lithuania, where they had been farmers, raising cattle and vegetables near Vilna. His father studied history and literature in Vilnius, Lithuania and hoped to become a professor of comparative literature but never gained headway in the academic world. He worked most of his life as a librarian at the Jewish National and University Library.
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