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| Israeli writer Amos Oz honoured with top Spanish literary award |
| 2007-06-29 |
| Leading Israeli intellectual Amos Oz was awarded the annual Prince of Asturias prize for literature in recognition of his works denouncing extremism and advocating Israeli-Palestinian peace. The jury meeting in the northern city of Oviedo said Oz had ''contributed to turning the Hebrew language into a brilliant literary instrument while revealing certain truths about the most pressing and universal realities of our times, with as much attention to defending peace between different communities as denouncing all forms of extremism.'' Oz, the author of 18 novels and numerous articles and essays, is a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Oz, 68, was born in Jerusalem and has lived in the town of Arad since 1986. Much of his fiction is centered around the Jerusalem house he grew up in at 18 Amos Street. Oz spent over 30 years living on a kibbutz in central Israel and later criticized the kibbutz lifestyle in his essays. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces during the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #1 Treason never doth prosper... |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-06-29 08:27 |