Nathan Shaham

Nathan Shaham
נתן שחם
Shaham in Beit Alfa, Nov. 2000
Born(1925-01-29)January 29, 1925
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
DiedJune 18, 2018(2018-06-18) (aged 93)
Beit Alfa, Israel
OccupationsWriter, novelist and playwright
Writing career
Notable awards

Nathan Shaham (Hebrew: נתן שחם; January 29, 1925 – June 18, 2018) was an Israeli writer.

Biography

Born in Tel Aviv, Shaham was a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa from 1945-2018, and served with the Palmach in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He was 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 a former vice-chairman of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

He died in his home in Beit Alfa on June 18, 2018.

Awards

Shaham was the winner of several literary awards, including the Bialik Prize (1988), the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for Rosendorf Quartet (1992), the Newman Prize (1993), the ADAI-WIZO Prize for The Rosendorf Quartet (Italy, 2005), and the Prime Minister's Prize (2007).

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.

Works

References

  1. ↑ Yudkin, Leon I. (1925-01-29). Israel: the vision of a state and its literature - Leon I. Yudkin - Google Books. ISBN 9782912590305. Retrieved 2019-08-06. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  2. ↑ "Hebrew at Stanford: Multimedia". Stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  3. ↑ בוקר, רן (Jun 18, 2018). הסופר והמחזאי נתן שחם הלך לעולמו בגיל 93. Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved Jun 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ "List of Bialik Prize recipients 1933-2004 (in Hebrew), Tel Aviv Municipality website" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-12-17.
  5. ↑ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  6. ↑ Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, Nathan Shaham (retrieved 27 November 2017).
  7. ↑ "Nathan Shaham to receive Israel Prize for Hebrew Literature". Haaretz. February 24, 2012. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2010-12-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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