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    A. B. Yehoshua

    A. B. Yehoshua

    PRESENT: LITERATURE

    A.B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s leading fiction writers since his debut in the late 1950s. 

    One remarkable aspect of his literary enterprise is his sustained willingness to experiment with different literary modes, including surrealistic stories, novella, psychological realism and historical novels, addressing underlying problems of the Israeli condition and their historical antecedents in compelling and innovative ways.

    Amongst his most acclaimed original books are Mr. Mani, a historical novel told in reverse chronological order through dialogues in which the speech of only one of the two interlocutors is given, and Journey to the End of Millennium, a radically different historical novel set in the late tenth century CE, in which through rich and at times virtually fantastic inventiveness the cultural opposition between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewry is explored. 

    His works have been translated into 28 languages and ten of his works have been adapted to film, television, theatre and opera.

    A.B. Yehoshua has received numerous distinguished awards, amongst them the Emet Prize (2016); Prix Médicis étranger (2013); the Israel Prize (1995); the Koret Prize (1993); the Israeli Booker Prize (1992); the American Prize for the best Jewish book (1990); the Bialik Prize (1989); the Alterman Prize (1986) and the Brenner Prize (1983) and he holds honorary doctorates from several universities in Israel and abroad.

    OTHER PREVIOUS LAUREATES

    Andrzej Udalski
    Andrzej Udalski
    2017

    Future: Astronomy

    Prof. Andrzej Udalski is the former Director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw and the head of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment.

    Shrinivas Kulkarni
    Shrinivas Kulkarni
    2017

    Future: Astronomy

    Shrinivas Kulkarni is the Director of Caltech Optical Observatories and the Director of the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute.

    Neil Gehrels
    Neil Gehrels
    2017

    Future: Astronomy

    Prof. Neil Gehrels was the Director of the NASA Astroparticle Physics Laboratory and a leading figure for several decades in the field of gamma ray astronomy.

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