परिचय
जन्म : 4 मई 1939, येरुशलम, इस्राइल
भाषा : हिब्रूविधाएँ : कहानी, उपन्यास, संस्मरण, निबंध, बाल साहित्यमुख्य कृतियाँ
कथा साहित्य : Where the Jackals Howl, ‘Elsewhere, Perhaps’, My Michael, Unto Death, ‘Touch the Water, Touch the Wind’, The Hill of Evil Counsel, Soumchi, A Perfect Peace, Black Box, To Know a Woman, Fima, Don't Call It Night, Panther in the Basement, The Same Sea, The Silence of Heaven: Agnon's Fear of God, Suddenly in the Depth of the Forest, Rhyming Life and Death, Scenes from Village Life, Between Friends, Judas
अन्य : In the Land of Israel (essays on political issues), Israel, Palestine and Peace : Essays, Under This Blazing Light, Israeli Literature: a Case of Reality Reflecting Fiction, The Slopes of Lebanon, The Story Begins: Essays on Literature, A Tale of Love and Darkness, How to Cure a Fanatic, Jews and Words, Dear Zealots : Letters from a Divided Land, What's in an Apple
सम्मान
Brenner Prize (1976), Bernstein Prize (1983 - original Hebrew novel category), Bialik Prize for literature (1986), Israel Prize for literature (1998), Ovid Prize from the city of Neptun, Romania, Premi Internacional Catalunya" of the Generalitat of Catalonia (2004), Goethe Prize from the city of Frankfurt, Germany for his life's work, JQ Wingate Prize (nonfiction) for A Tale of Love and Darkness (2005), Jerusalem-Agnon Prize, Corine Prize (Germany) (2006), Prince of Asturias Award in Literature (Spain), A Tale of Love and Darkness named one of the ten most important books since the creation of the State of Israel (2007), German President's High Honor Award, Primo Levi Prize (Italy), Heinrich Heine Prize of Düsseldorf, Germany (2008), Jonas Weiss Memorial Award (Sweden - 2009), Book fair prize, Budapest (for "Rhyming Life and Death"), The Prix Mediterrannee award, Siegfried Unseld's award, Germany, The Readers Prize Of Torino Intl. Literary Festival, Prix Mediterranee Etranger, France (for “scenes From A Village Life”), Napoli Prize (for “Scenes From A Village Life”) (2010), Italy’s Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa literary prize for “The Hill of Evil Counsel” (2012), Newman Prize for Literature by The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in recognition of his continues literary work, Franz Kafka Prize (2013), Park Kyong-ni Prize, a South Korean award (2015), Renmin University prize, China (2016), Abraham Geiger Award (Berlin), Jing Dong Literary Prize (China), Mount Zion Award (2017), Stig Dagerman Prize, Sweden), Yasnaya Poliana (Tolstoy) Prize, Moscow, Taormina Festival Book Prize, Sicily (2018)