About Amos Oz
Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Awards:
Franz Kafka Prize|Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt|Catalonia International Prize|Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association|Heinrich Heine Prize|Israel Prize|Bialik Prize|Siegfried Unseld Preis|Dan David Prize|Mount Zion Award|Stefan Heym International Award|Brenner Prize|Bernstein Prize|Princess of Asturias Literary Prize|Prix Femina étranger|Prize of the International Book Fair in Torino|Abraham Geiger Prize|Newman Prize|Knight of the Legion of Honour|Q137385829|Q137593931|Q137761811|Ze'ev Prize|Officer of Arts and Letters|Siegfried Lenz Prize|honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem|Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit|honorary doctor of Tel Aviv University|honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science|honorary doctor of the University of Łódź|honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp
All Amos Oz Quotes
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When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like ants. Writers are…
Ambition
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And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land…
Been
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But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday…
Any
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Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the…
Almost Unknown
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Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.
Clash
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It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably…
Abstain
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