Amos Oz Bio (Biography)
Real name:
Amos Klausner
Date of birth:
May 4. 1939
Place of birth:
Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
Astrology Sign:
Taurus
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Biography
Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist, Amos Oz, birth name Amos Klausner, was born May 4, 1939. He is also a professor of Literature at the University in Be'er Sheva currently.
Amos's fictional writings are based around the area that he grew up in Jerusalem with his father Yehuda Arieh Klausner and mother Fania Musman. His parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and his father was a librarian and writer and also studied literature as well as history in Lithuania.
Although he was raised quite removed from religion in his family he did attend the community religious school Tachkemoni because the alternative was a socialistic school that was connected with the labor movement that was disapproved of politically even more than they opposed religion. Klausner's family members were right-wing Revisionist Zionists and one relative even ran for the presidency and was the chair of the Hebrew literary society at the University in Jerusalem.
At the age of twelve, Amos lost his mother to suicide and he was later able to explore his feelings about this in a story that he wrote called "A Tale of Love and Darkness". His radical thoughts that he developed when in a Kibbutz at around fifteen while staying with the Huldai family made him decide to live a full kibbutz life. He felt that Tel Aviv wasn't radical enough but the kibbutz was so he remained living and working on the kibbutz until he and his wife moved in 1986 because his son had asthma and it required a geographical move. While he grew his writing career, he was allowed to decrease his time with the kibbutz work and was able to give more money because of his success rather than time.
In the late 1950's he served in the Israeli Defense Forces and again in 1967 and 1973.
Amos Oz, studies philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University and then he began to publish books. He wrote incessantly and was publishing a book per year for several years.
In 1998, Oz received his country's most prestigious award for writing, the Israel Prize for Literature. Then in 2005, he won the coveted award from the city of Frankfurt Germany called the Goethe Prize, for his life's work. His books have been translated into over 30 languages, and 18 are in Hebrew and include about 450 articles and essays.
Amos's fictional writings are based around the area that he grew up in Jerusalem with his father Yehuda Arieh Klausner and mother Fania Musman. His parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe and his father was a librarian and writer and also studied literature as well as history in Lithuania.
Although he was raised quite removed from religion in his family he did attend the community religious school Tachkemoni because the alternative was a socialistic school that was connected with the labor movement that was disapproved of politically even more than they opposed religion. Klausner's family members were right-wing Revisionist Zionists and one relative even ran for the presidency and was the chair of the Hebrew literary society at the University in Jerusalem.
At the age of twelve, Amos lost his mother to suicide and he was later able to explore his feelings about this in a story that he wrote called "A Tale of Love and Darkness". His radical thoughts that he developed when in a Kibbutz at around fifteen while staying with the Huldai family made him decide to live a full kibbutz life. He felt that Tel Aviv wasn't radical enough but the kibbutz was so he remained living and working on the kibbutz until he and his wife moved in 1986 because his son had asthma and it required a geographical move. While he grew his writing career, he was allowed to decrease his time with the kibbutz work and was able to give more money because of his success rather than time.
In the late 1950's he served in the Israeli Defense Forces and again in 1967 and 1973.
Amos Oz, studies philosophy and Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University and then he began to publish books. He wrote incessantly and was publishing a book per year for several years.
In 1998, Oz received his country's most prestigious award for writing, the Israel Prize for Literature. Then in 2005, he won the coveted award from the city of Frankfurt Germany called the Goethe Prize, for his life's work. His books have been translated into over 30 languages, and 18 are in Hebrew and include about 450 articles and essays.