Yitzhak Ben Ner

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Yitzhak Ben Ner (Hebrew: יצחק בן נר‎, also transliterated Itzhak Ben-Ner, b. 1937 in Kfar Yehoshua, Israel) was an influential Israeli writer, screenwriter, journalist, and film critic.

He attended Tel Aviv University. He started publishing as a boy, and published his first book for adults in 1967. Several books of his have been adapted for theatrical or cinematic productions. His play Ta'atuon won First Prize at the 1990 Theatroneto Festival. He was awarded the Agnon-Jerusalem Prize in 1981, the Bernstein Prize, the Ramat Gan Prize for Literature in 1983, and the Prime Minister's Prize in 2005. His books and stories have been translated into many languages.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Books 1.2 Film and television 1.3 Plays 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Books

• After the Field-Burner (children), 1967
• The Man From There (novel), 1967
• Rustic Sunset (story collection), 1976
• Kishona, Children of the River (children), 1977
• After the Rain (3 stories), 1979
• My Friend Emmanuel and I (children), 1979
• A Far Land (novel in stories), 1981
• Protokol (novel), 1982
• Angels are Coming (novel), 1987
• Ta'atuon (novel), 1989
• Jeans, a Dog (children), 1991
• Morning of Fools (novel), 1992
• Bears and Woods (novel), 1995
• Enemy Scope (novel), 1997
• City of Refuge (novel), 2000
• Nobody's Ever Died Walking (novel), 2007

[edit] Film and television

• Again, Forever (feature film, wrote story and screenplay), 1985
• Atalia (feature film, wrote story), 1986
• The Class Queen (feature film, as actor) 1988
• Winter Games (TV drama, wrote story) 1989
• Nili (documentary feature film, wrote screenplay and directed), 1996
• Enemy Scope, (TV mini-series, screenplay based on his novel), 1999

[edit] Plays

• David August (monodrama, based on his story), 1983
• Ta'atuon (monodrama, based on his novel)
• A Far Land (monodrama, based on his story), 1992
• Morning of Fools (monodrama, based on his novel)
• Uri Muri (drama), 1999

[edit] References

• Yitzhak Ben-Ner at the Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature

[edit] External links

• Yitzhak Ben Ner at the Internet Movie Database