A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua · Arts & Literature
Israeli novelist ('Mr. Mani', 'The Lover')
1936, Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine — 2022, Tel Aviv, Israel
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A. B. Yehoshua is recognized among Israeli contributors to Arts & Literature — Israeli novelist ('Mr. Mani', 'The Lover')
Yehoshua, an Israeli Jewish novelist from a fifth-generation Sephardi Jerusalem family, was one of the leading voices of modern Hebrew literature. Novels such as 'Mr. Mani' and 'The Lover' use shifting narrators and layered histories to probe Israeli identity, memory, and family. Alongside Amos Oz and David Grossman he defined the generation of Israeli writers who brought Hebrew fiction to a wide international readership.
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Israeli novelist ('Mr. Mani', 'The Lover')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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