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Amos Oz
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Amos Oz was an influential Israeli writer and novelist who became one of the country's most important literary figures during the late 20th century. He is significant for his contributions to Hebrew literature and for his role as a public intellectual who engaged in debates about Israeli society and politics.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 4 May 1939
- Died
- 28 December 2018
- Works
- 269
Top works
- Povesta despre dragoste și întuneric
- Har ha-ʻetsah ha-raʻah
- Een Verhaal van Liefde en Duisternis
- Be-or ha-tekhelet he-ʻazah
- Aż do śmierci
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Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- The Fourth Window — Himself2021
- Linhas Cruzadas — Himself2021
- Countdown to Calvary — Self2018
- Histoires d'Israël — Lui-même2018
- Censored Voices2015
- Square — Self2012
- Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams — Self2009
- Skavlan — Self - Guest2009
- Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass — Self2007
- Kulturzeit — self1995
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1939
- Active to
- 2018
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 61
- Total plays
- 712
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk
· 1979 · cited 40,280x
- Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
· 1974 · cited 23,881x
- The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice
· 1981 · cited 11,931x
- Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty
· 1992 · cited 11,677x
- Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability
· 1973 · cited 6,597x
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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.'"”
- “The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.”
- “The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.”
- “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.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner (עמוס קלוזנר); 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) 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.
He was the author of 40 books, including novels, short story collections, children's books, and essays, and his work has been published in 45 languages, more than that of any other Israeli writer. He was the recipient of many honours and awards, among them the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the Legion of Honour of France, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize, and the Franz Kafka Prize.
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