Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual
Photo by: Michiel Hendryckx · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Born:May 4, 1939
Died:December 28, 2018
Age at death:79
Manner of death:Natural Causes
Cause of death:Cancer
Zodiac Sign:Taurus
Born in:Jerusalem, Israel
Buried in:Israel
Languages:English, Hebrew
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Awards
Franz Kafka Prize (2013)Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual
Biography
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Quotes
“Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: 'Yids, get out of Palestine.”
— A Tale of Love and Darkness (2003).; Quoted on U.S. radio program "Fresh Air" (December 1, 2004).
“The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.”
— "Between Oz and Ayalon" (interview), the Supplement to Shabbat, 21 November 2008, Yedioth Ahronoth, p. 2.
“The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.”
— "The Great Disruption", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4 (17 June 1999). [1]
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Photos
Israeli writer, novelist and journalist Amos Oz
Title: Amos Oz, Israeli author Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: [between 1980 and 1990] Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-02971 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information see "Bernard Gotfryd," (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.592.gotf) Access Advisory: Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation. Call Number: LC-GB05- 2971 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Title from slide mount and other caption information provided by the photographer. Photo agency: Woodfin Camp & Assoc. 415 Madison Avenue, New York. Gotfryd set no.: AA-541-001-A. Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032). Subjects: authors Personalities Format: Slides--Color--1980-1990. Part of: Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2020732512/
רחוב עמוס עוז בשכונת גליל ים בהרצליה
לימור שריר עם עמוס עוז; בקורס "ספרות ורפואה", הפקולטה לרפואה, אוניברסיטת תל אביב
Mirjam Pressler and Amos Oz, Leipzig Book Fair 2015
German author and translator Mirjam Pressler and the Israeli author Amos Oz. Mirjam Pressler gets the "price of Leipzig book fair" for her translation of the novel "Judas" by Amos Oz.
Amos Oz, Leipzig Book Fair 2013
AUHTOR AMOS OZ, A KIBBUTZ HULDA MEMBER IN HIS LIVING ROOM.
Amos Oz, the award ceremony of Arad 2012
Amos Oz Shira Hadad
Questions and answers about Amos Oz
Who was Amos Oz?
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual.
When was Amos Oz born?
Amos Oz was born on May 4, 1939.
When and how did Amos Oz die?
Amos Oz died on December 28, 2018, at the age of 79. Cause of death: cancer.
Where was Amos Oz born?
Amos Oz was born in Jerusalem, Israel.
What was Amos Oz known for?
Amos Oz was known for work as: poet, children's writer, linguist, essayist.