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Abraham B. Yehoshua
Born in 1936 in Jerusalem. A novelist, playwright, and essayist who studied Hebrew literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He served as the General Secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students in Paris, and has been a professor of comparative and Hebrew literature at the University of Haifa since the early 1970s. Yehoshua has been a visiting professor at Chicago, Princeton, Rome, and Paris universities, and received honorary doctorates from various Israeli and international universities. Published in dozens of languages, his books have been adapted for the stage and screen in Israel and worldwide, and were the subject of extensive academic scholarship. He has received many Israeli and international awards in Israel and around the world, including the 1995 Israel Prize for Literature.
