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2 unusual facts about Amos Oz


Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams

During the film, Oz meets fellow-writers, like Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster and Nadine Gordimer, offers advice to the Israeli president Shimon Peres, and conducts a long dialogue with Palestinian intellectual Sari Nusseibeh.

The film, released in May 2009, is Yonathan and Masha Zur’s second film (after Magia Russica, 2004).


Center for Cultural Judaism

A hybrid of literary and scholarly writing, its contributors have included Amos Oz, Ilan Stavans, and A.B. Yehoshua; the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky; and a host of well-known writers and thinkers.

Hillel Halkin

He has translated Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman, and major Hebrew and Israeli novelists, among them Yosef Haim Brenner, S. Y. Agnon, Shulamith Hareven, A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Oz, and Meir Shalev.

Michigan Quarterly Review

In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Eileen Pollack, Peter Orner and Jacob Appel.

Nicholas de Lange

De Lange has translated several works of fiction by Amos Oz, S. Yizhar and A.B. Yehoshua into English.

The Little Traitor

Based on the novel A Panther in the Basement by author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state.

Yanun

On October 30, 2002, together with David Shulman, a group that included the distinguished Israeli writers Amos Oz, Meir Shalev, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, the daughter of Haim Gouri, with Rabbi Menachem Froman, co-founder of Gush Emunim and a settler in Tekoa, Ian Buruma and an assortment of Israeli television camera crews and journalists visited Yanun to assist the returned villagers with their harvest and ward off settlers.


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Bjørnson Festival

Visiting authors (and tree-planters at the grove) include Wole Soyinka, Yasar Kemal, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Seamus Heaney, Amos Oz, Izzat al-Ghazzawi, Bei Dao, Hans Blix and Thor Heyerdahl.

Nicholas de Lange

In November 2007, he received the Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Translation from the Hebrew for his translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz.