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Amos Oz

Born

in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, Israel

May 04, 1939

Died

December 28, 2018

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences

Shmuel Agnon, Sherwood Anderson, Leon Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ant ...more

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Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז‎; born Amos Klausner) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual. He was also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba. He was regarded as Israel's most famous living author.

Oz's work has been published in 42 languages in 43 countries, and has received many honours and awards, among them the Legion of Honour of France, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Israel Prize. In 2007, a selection from the Chinese translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness was the first work of modern Hebrew literature to appear in an official Chinese textbook.

Since 1967, Oz had been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 62,175 ratings · 6,459 reviews · 195 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Tale of Love and Darkness 4.23 avg rating — 13,271 ratings — published 2002 — 141 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Judas by Amos Oz, Raquel García Lozano (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 9,718 ratings — published 2014 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Box 3.89 avg rating — 4,330 ratings — published 1986 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Cure a Fanatic 3.84 avg rating — 4,109 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Michael: A Haunting Literary Novel – Israel's Modern Madame Bovary Set in 1950s Jerusalem 3.57 avg rating — 4,281 ratings — published 1967 — 123 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Between Friends 4.03 avg rating — 3,185 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest by Amos Oz, Sondra Silverston (Translator) 3.51 avg rating — 3,286 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Know a Woman 3.56 avg rating — 2,271 ratings — published 1989 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Panther in the Basement 3.70 avg rating — 2,146 ratings — published 1995 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scenes from Village Life 3.71 avg rating — 2,009 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
― Amos Oz

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“There are lots of women who are attracted to tyrannical men. Like moths to a flame. And there are some women who do not need a hero or even a stormy lover but a friend. Just remember that when you grow up. Steer clear of the tryant lovers, and try to locate the ones who are looking for a man as a friend, not because they are feeling empty themselves but because they enjoy making you full too. And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than love: love is actually something quite gross and even clumsy compared to friendship. Friendship includes a measure of sensitivity, attentiveness, generosity, and a finely tuned sense of moderation.”
― Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

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“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.”
― Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

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Welk boek gaan we in maart 2021 lezen? (Een boek dat zich afspeelt in een niet-Westers land)

De vliegeraar van Khaled Hosseini - 352 pagina's - Afghanistan

22 votes, 16.8%

Het huis van de moskee van Kader Abdolah - 412 pagina's - Iran

18 votes, 13.7%

Moord op de Nijl van Agatha Christie - 223 pagina's - Egypte

13 votes, 9.9%

Honderd jaar eenzaamheid van Gabriel García Márquez - 428 pagina's - Columbia/Macondo

10 votes, 7.6%

Duizend schitterende zonnen van Khaled Hosseini - 396 pagina's - Afghanistan

9 votes, 6.9%

Mijn zusje, de seriemoordenaar van Oyinkan Braithwaite - 230 pagina's - Nigeria

9 votes, 6.9%

Kleurenblind/Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood van Trevor Noah - 280 pagina's - Zuid-Afrika

7 votes, 5.3%

Atlantis van David Gibbins - 381 pagina's - Egypte/Rode Zee

6 votes, 4.6%

De vegetariër van Han Kang - 222 pagina's - Zuid Korea

5 votes, 3.8%

Judas van Amos Oz - 304 pagina's - Israel

5 votes, 3.8%

Een kist ontploffende mango's van Mohammed Hanif - 415 pagina's - Pakistan

4 votes, 3.1%

De ontembare van Guillermo Arriaga - 830 pagina's - Mexico

3 votes, 2.3%

Ali en Nino van Kurban Said - 282 pagina's - Azerbeidzjan

3 votes, 2.3%

Een huis voor meneer Biswas van V.S. Naipaul - 586 pagina's - Trinidad en Tobago

3 votes, 2.3%

Koorts van Deon Meyer - 582 pagina's - Zuid-Afrika

3 votes, 2.3%

Het lelietheater van Lulu Wang - 495 pagina's - China

3 votes, 2.3%

Blijf bij me van Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ - 288 pagina's - Nigeria

2 votes, 1.5%

Mensenwerk van Han Kang - 240 pagina's - Zuid-Korea

2 votes, 1.5%

Het ding om je hals van Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 254 pagina's - Nigeria

2 votes, 1.5%

Weg naar huis van Yaa Gyasi - 400 pagina's - Ghana

2 votes, 1.5%

Suikerbastaard van Jaap Scholten - 576 pagina's - Ethiopië

0 votes, 0.0%

De schim van mijn liefde van Dương Thu Hương - 509 pagina's - Vietnam

0 votes, 0.0%

131 total votes

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