Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He died in December 2018.
An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence * Observer * The physical circumstances are established with a painter's skill... It is a rich book, its fruit pressed down and running over * Sunday Times * A generous imagination at work. Oz's language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity * New York Times *