Hello Gentle Reader
Amos Oz, Israel’s most well-known writer, has just won the international award literary prize, The Kafka Award. Won by Nobel Laureates in Literature Elfriede Jelinek and Harold Pinter; along with other big name authors in literature like Peter Handke of Austria, Péter Nádas of Hungary, Haruki Murkami a perennial Nobel favourite from Japan, as well as Václav Havel a writer and former president of the Czech Republic.
The award amount is ten thousand dollars, and it has been confirmed that Amos Oz is expected to go to an October ceremony in Prague with his wife. Amos Oz has been a perennial favourite and often talked about nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature. His literary merit that will most likely be noticed more than political reasons. His work is known to be able to transcended the cultural barriers, and speak universal truths of the human condition, from an Israeli point of view.
Amos Oz is also known to being an outspoken intellectual in Israel. He supports a two-state agreement between Israel and Palestine – calling the conflict not a war of religions or traditions/culture, but rather “a real estate dispute,” that will only be resolved by “painful compromise.”
Congratulations though are in order for Amos Oz, on this achievement.
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