Nathan Shaham

Nathan Shaham נתן שחם
Shaham in Beit Alfa, Nov. 2000
Born	(1925-01-29)January 29, 1925
Died	June 18, 2018(2018-06-18) (aged 93) Beit Alfa, Israel
Occupation	Writer, novelist and playwright
Nationality	Israeli
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)

Nathan Shaham (Hebrew: נתן שחם; January 29, 1925^[1] – June 18, 2018) was an Israeli writer.

Biography

Born in Tel Aviv, Shaham was a member of Kibbutz Beit Alfa from 1945-2018, and served with the Palmach in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.^[2] He was 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 a former vice-chairman of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

He died in his home in Beit Alfa on June 18, 2018.^[3]

Awards

Shaham was the winner of several literary awards, including the Bialik Prize (1988),^[4] the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for Rosendorf Quartet (1992),^[5] the Newman Prize (1993), the ADAI-WIZO Prize for The Rosendorf Quartet (Italy, 2005), and the Prime Minister's Prize (2007).^[6]

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.^[7]

Works

• Grain and Lead (novel), Sifriat Poalim, 1948 [Dagan Ve-Oferet]^[8]
• The Gods Are Lazy (novel), Sifriat Poalim, 1949 [Ha-Elim Atzelim]
• They'll Arrive Tomorrow (play), Sifriat Poalim, 1949 [Hem Yagyu Mahar]
• Call Me Siomka (play), Sifriat Poalim, 1950 [Kra Li Siomka]
• "Yohanan Bar Hama" (play), 1952
• Always Us (novel), Sifriat Poalim, 1952 [Tamid Anahnu]
• A Stone on the Well's Mouth (novel), Sifriat Poalim, 1956 [Even Al Pi Ha-Be'er]
• "Meetings in Moscow" (non-fiction), 1957
• Veterans' Housing (stories), Sifriat Poalim, 1958 [Shikun Vatikim]
• The Wisdom of the Poor (novel), Sifriat Poalim, 1960 [Hochmat Ha-Misken]
• Citrus Scent (novel), Sifriat Poalim, 1962 [Reyah Hadarim]
• The Journey to the Land of Kush (travel), Massada, 1962 [Masah Le-Eretz Kush]
• "That's Because" (children), Sifriat Poalim, 1964
• The Book of Portraits, Sifriat Poalim, 1968 [Sefer ha-Diokanaot]
• First Person Plural (novel), Sifriat Poalim, 1968 [Guf Rishon Rabim]
• Round Trip (novel), Am Oved, 1972 [Haloch Ve-Shov]
• Witness for the King (novel), Am Oved, 1975 [Ed Ha-Melech]
• Talk to the Wind (novel), Sifriat Poalim, 1975 [Daber El Ha-Ruah]
• The Other Side of the Wall (novellas), Am Oved, 1978 [Kirot Etz Dakim]
• Green Autumn (stories), Sifriat Poalim, 1979 [Stav Yarok]
• Bone to the Bone (novel), Am Oved, 1981 [Etzem El Atzmo]
• Still Silent Voice (novel), Sifriat Poalim, 1983 [Demamah Dakah]
• Mountain and Home (non-fiction), Sifriat Poalim, 1984 [Ha-Har Ve Ha-Bayit]
• The Streets of Ashkelon (novellas), Am Oved, 1985 [Hutzot Ashkelon]
• Four in One Bar, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1987 [Arba Be-Teivah Ahat]
• The Rosendorf Quartet (novel), Am Oved, 1987 [Reviyat Rosendorf]. English translation Avalon Travel Publishing, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8021-3316-8
• Sealed Book, Sifriat Poalim, 1988 [Sefer Hatum]
• They'll Arrive Tomorrow (play), Or-Am, 1989 [Hem Yagyu Mahar]
• New Account (play), Or-Am, 1989 [Heshbon Hadash]
• The Desert Generation (non-fiction), Sifriat Poalim, 1991 [Dor Ha-Midbar]
• Series (novel), Am Oved, 1992 [Sidra]
• Hot Dogs (stories), Sifriat Poalim, 1993 [Naknikiot Hamot]
• The Heart of Tel Aviv (novel), Am Oved, 1996 [Lev Tel Aviv]
• Expect a Letter (stories), Sifriat Poalim, 1999 [Michtav Ba-Derech]
• Rosendorf's Shadow (novel), Am Oved, 2001 [Tzilo Shel Rosendorf]
• Tabula Rasa [Zmora-Bitan, 2010] (Hebrew: לוח חלק)

References

External links

• Biography, Hebrew at Stanford

See also

• List of Bialik Prize recipients

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