Nationality Israeli Name Nathan Shaham | Role Writer | |
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Occupation Writer, novelist and playwright Notable awards Bialik Prize (1988)National Jewish Book Award (1992)Newman Prize (1993)ADAI-WIZO Prize (2005)Prime Minister's Prize (2007)Israel Prize (2012) Books The Rosendorf Quartet, Bone to the bone Awards National Jewish Book Award for Fiction People also search for Moshe Shamir, Haim Gouri, Dalya Bilu | ||
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Nathan Shaham (Hebrew: נתן שחם) (born 1925) is an Israeli writer.
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- Culturebuzz s hebrew writers readers series nathan shaham s the rosendorf quartet
- Nathan Shaham
- Biography
- Awards
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Nathan Shaham
Biography
Born in Tel Aviv, Shaham has been a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa since 1945, and served with the Palmach in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He is 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 is a former vice-chairman of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.
Awards
Shaham is the winner of several literary awards, including the Bialik Prize (1988), the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction (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.