Amos Oz
Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born May 4, 1939, birth name Amos Klausner) is an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He is regarded as Israel's most famous living author.
Oz's work has been published in 42 languages, including Arabic, in 43 countries. He has received many honours and awards, among them the Legion of Honour of France, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Israel Prize. In 2007, a selection from the Chinese translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness was the first work of modern Hebrew literature to appear in an official Chinese textbook.
Since 1967, Oz has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Biography
Amos Klausner (later Oz) was born in Jerusalem in 1939, where he grew up at No. 18 Amos Street in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood.
His parents, Yehuda Arieh Klausner and Fania Mussman, were immigrants to Mandatory Palestine, who met while studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His father's family was from Lithuania, where they had been farmers, raising cattle and vegetables near Vilna. His father studied history and literature in Vilnius, Lithuania and hoped to become a professor of comparative literature but never gained headway in the academic world. He worked most of his life as a librarian at the Jewish National and University Library.
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Amy's Eyes
by: Pride, CharleyAmy left the crayons on the table yesterday. So I called her in and asked her, to help put them away. And i noticed on the table there's a picture she had drawn, it was me and amy, just the two of us alone.
She pointed at three spaces she had underlined in red and the teardrops started fallin' when she looked at me and said: Its my mommy and my daddy and me here at home, but since mommy doesnt live here, i just colored mommy gone. Didn't understand till i saw through amy's eyes throughout all the picures your not missing in her eyes. you've been gone so long now, but i thought that you should know, amy loves her mommy and we need you here at home. So im sending you the picture and i hope you'll take the time to see that something's missing when you look through amy's eyes. Didn't understand till i saw through amy's eyes throughout all the picures your not missing in her eyes. So im sending you this picture and i hope you'll take the time. to see that somethings missing when you look through amy's eyes. You'll see that somethings missing when you look through amy's eyes. Amy left the crayons on the table yesterday.