Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Amalia Kahana-Carmon (Hebrew: עמליה כהנא-כרמון) (born 1926) is an Israeli author, educator, and recipient of the Israel Prize for literature (2000).
Kahana was born at Kibbutz Ein Harod. Her father, Haim Kahana, was one of the founders of the kibbutz. She moved to Tel Aviv, where she studied at the Herzliya secondary school. During the Israeli War of Independence she served in the Negev Brigade of Palmach as a signals operator and wrote the famous telegram for the capture of Eilat. She received a master's degree in literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964.
Awards
Works of fiction in Hebrew
- Under One Roof (1966)
- And Moon in the Valley of Ayalon (1971)
- A Piece for the Stage, in the Grand Manner (1975)
- Magnetic Fields (1977)
- High Stakes (1980)
- Up in Montifer (1984)
- With Her on Her Way Home (1991)
- Here We'll Live (1996)
References
Further reading
- "Amalia Kahana-Carmon" at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature. Retrieved July 10, 2005.
- Much of the content of this article comes from the article "עמליה כהנא כרמון" (Amalia Kahana-Carmon) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia, retrieved July 10, 2005.
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