Author: Amos Oz

Amos Oz was born in Jerusalem in 1939 and is a well-known novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. After serving in the Israeli army and graduating from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Oz served as a reservist in the Israeli army in the 1967 Six Day War and again in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Since 1967 he has been actively involved with various peace groups striving for an Israeli-Palestinian peace based on mutual recognition. Oz”s works of fiction include My Michael, Don”t Call It Night, Fima, and, most recently, Panther in the Basement. His works have won him the Prix Fémina Étranger, France”s top literary award for a foreign novel. He is also the winner of the International Frankfurt Peace Prize, the Israel Prize for Literature, and many other literary awards. Oz”s works have been translated into thirty-one languages. He also holds the Agnon Chair for Modern Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Amos Oz resides with his family in Arad in the Negev desert in the south of Israel.