Nathan Shaham
נתן שחם
Shaham in Beit Alfa, Nov. 2000
Shaham in Beit Alfa, Nov. 2000
Born(1925-01-29)January 29, 1925
DiedJune 18, 2018(2018-06-18) (aged 93)
Beit Alfa, Israel
OccupationWriter, novelist and playwright
NationalityIsraeli
Notable awards

Nathan Shaham (Hebrew: נתן שחם; January 29, 1925[1] – 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.[2] 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.[3]

Awards

Shaham was the winner of several literary awards, including the Bialik Prize (1988),[4] the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for Rosendorf Quartet (1992),[5] the Newman Prize (1993), the ADAI-WIZO Prize for The Rosendorf Quartet (Italy, 2005), and the Prime Minister's Prize (2007).[6]

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.[7]

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.
  2. ^ "Hebrew at Stanford: Multimedia". Stanford.edu. 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. 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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