Literary honour? Nov 20, 2009
Roth can comfort himself with the fact that a roll-call of literary fiction's great and good - from the Booker winner John Banville to the acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz, the Goncourt winner Jonathan Littell and the Whitbread winner Paul Theroux - have made it into the line-up this year. Auberon Waugh set up the award to ''draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it. (The Age, Australia)
Nick Cave and the Bad Sex: up for a rude award Nov 20, 2009
Their comfort is that the dubious honour has gone to a roll-call of literary fiction's great and good this year - including the Booker Prize winner John Banville, the acclaimed Israeli novelist Amos Oz, the Goncourt winner Jonathan Littell and the Whitbread winner Paul Theroux. The English writer Auberon Waugh set up the award to ''draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Does J Street arrival signal a split in America's Israel lobby? Oct 28, 2009
The embassy also said that is was "privately communicating its concerns over certain policies" of J Street and that the embassy would send an observer to the conference and "follow its proceedings with interest. That response did not sit well with various people in Israel, in particular Netanyahu critics who say he's dragging his feet on peace and that he should be warmly welcoming J Street to the Washington power circuit. A number of centrist and left-wing Israeli political parties ... (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Jerusalem diary Oct 13, 2009
His words, strangely, chime with those of one of Israel's prouder exports, the novelist Amos Oz. ... The day after I spoke to Avi Levy, I listened back to the interview I had had with Amos Oz, five months before, in his house in Arad. (BBC News -- Africa)
Nobel guessing game at fever pitch Oct 5, 2009
Online betting site Ladbrokes meanwhile has Israeli author Amos Oz as the most likely winner with 4-to-1 odds. Other writers who regularly pop up in the Nobel speculation are Canadian author Margaret Atwood, US novelists Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates, and Algerian French-language writer Assia Djebar. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Nobel Glory Awaits Handful of Top Scientists Oct 3, 2009
Other names mentioned in the literature buzz this year include Israeli writer Amos Oz, American writers Joyce Carol Oates and Philip Roth and Syrian poet Adonis. The prize selections often result in allegations of political bias. (Newsmax)
Culture wars Oct 2, 2009
But this year the Egyptian Ministry of Culture announced it had signed a contract with a European publishing house for translating books by Israeli authors David Grossman and Amos Oz from English. "This way we don't have to speak to the Israeli publishers," explains Mr Asfour. (BBC News -- Africa)
Writer plots pathways into puzzle of Israeli life Sep 15, 2009
Amos Oz has over the years become Israel's literary eminence grise; Keret, 42, is its bete noir and its top short-story writer. High-school students read his latest works voluntarily, and chat about them behind the teachers' back. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
The Racist Who Might Head UNESCO Aug 27, 2009
Soon after that, he pledged that Egypt's culture ministry would translate literary works by two Israelis, Amos Oz and David Grossman. This seemed like a significant concession because official Egyptian policy mostly bars translation from Hebrew to Arabic -- or at least any dealings with Israeli publishers. (Slate)
‘Rhyming Life & Death’ is a powerful novella Aug 6, 2009
In his monumental memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz broke half a century of silence regarding his mother Fania s suicide ... RHYMING LIFE & DEATH By Amos Oz. (Boston Globe)
Egyptian u-turn on Israeli books Jun 16, 2009
Now the ministry is trying to put some weight behind his campaign by announcing that it will publish Arabic translations of novels by the renowned Israeli writers Amos Oz and David Grossman - for the first time. The national translation centre said it was translating books from 27 languages including Hebrew. (BBC News -- Africa)
No One Writes About Sticky Things as Well as Amos Oz Apr 7, 2009
Amos Oz's Rhyming Life and Death ... Amos Oz's entrancing paranoia ... the claustrophobic new novella by the famous Israeli novelist Amos Oz, takes place almost entirely inside the head of a famous Israeli novelist, who is named the Author. (Slate)
* [HARDCOVER: UK] Now you see him, now you dont Feb 22, 2009
Amos Oz cleverly contorts reality in his new novel, but postmodernism remains a dead end for fiction ... Things are different when similar effects are carried over into fiction, as they are in Amos Ozs Rhyming Life and Death ... Amos Oz has a light touch, but theres no disguising the way postmodernism rewrites the contract of fiction to the apparent benefit of the writer. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
