Amalia Kahana-Carmon

Amalia Kahana-Carmon, born at kibbutz Ein Harod on 18 October 1926, grew up in Tel Aviv and studied Bible and Hebrew language and literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A radio operator in the Negev Brigade in 1948, she then lived in London, where she married, then in Switzerland, and returned at the end of the 1950s. A librarian, then a leader of writing workshops, she published from the 1980s essays against the place given to women in Hebrew literature. Winner of the Israel Prize in 2000, she died in Tel Aviv on 16 January 2019.

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• Short storiesבכפיפה אחתAmalia Kahana-Carmon · 1966not translated into EnglishLiterature