Nathan Shaham

Nathan Shaham
נתן שחם

Shaham in Beit Alfa, Nov. 2000
Born 1925
Occupation Writer, novelist and playwright
Nationality Israeli
Notable awards

Nathan Shaham (Hebrew: נתן שחם) (born 1925) is an Israeli writer.

Biography

Born in Tel Aviv, Shaham has been a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa since 1945, and served with the Palmach in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.[1] He is the son of Eliezer Steinman, the Hebrew author and essayist.

Shaham was editor-in-chief of Sifriat Poalim Publishing House. He was Israel's cultural attaché in the United States from 1977–80, and is a former vice-chairman of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

Awards

Shaham is the winner of several literary awards, including the Bialik Prize (1988),[2] the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction (1992), the Newman Prize (1993), the ADAI-WIZO Prize for The Rosendorf Quartet (Italy, 2005), and the Prime Minister's Prize (2007).[3] In 2012, he won the Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature and Poetry; the prize jury called Shaham one of the outstanding authors of Israel’s generation of founders and noted the “lively and rich” style of his plays, fiction and nonfiction works.[4]

Works

References

  1. ↑ http://www.stanford.edu/class/hebrew/books/shaham.html
  2. ↑ "List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933-2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website" (PDF).
  3. ↑ Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, "Hebrew Authors: Nathan Shaham" (retrieved 18 November 2012).
  4. ↑ "Nathan Shaham to receive Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature". Haaretz. February 24, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
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See also


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