Yehoshua Kenaz

Yehoshua Kenaz ( * 1937, hebrïsch יהושע קנז ( Qenaz ), as Yehoshua Glass in Petah Tikva, League of Nations Mandate for Palestine ) is an Israeli writer and literary translator.

Life

Glass as a young man changed his name to Kenaz ( by Othniel Ben Kenaz, because of the similarity According to Glass). After his military service, he studied philosophy and Romance Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Sorbonne in Paris. Since then he has worked as a journalist and as a theater critic for the newspaper Haaretz, as well as a literary translator from the French. In 1960 he published his first story, and in 1986 he had with the novel Hitganvut Yehidim ( ' Partly Einschleichungen ') a great success. The novel is regarded today high in Israel and was filmed in 2010 by Dover Koshashvili. So far, he wrote to four of his novels and short stories also wrote the screenplay. In the 60s and 70s he was one of the editors of the quarterly journal Keschet ( קשת ' bow' ), in the 80 years for which the monthly Mahbarot la sifrut ( מחברות לספרות ' literature books ').

Kenaz was in Israel several literary awards, 1995 Bialik Prize. He lives in Tel Aviv.

Works

Also published in German

• 2012 matinee. Nine stories. Translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Linner. Luchterhand, Munich, ISBN 978-3-630-87333-6.