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Israeli writer is a winner of the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award

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Israeli writer is a winner of the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award


18.10.2018

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Amos Oz from Israel has become the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award winner for his novel Judas, TASS informs.

Amos Oz, regarded as Israel's living classic, will present his novel in Russia. His books are translated into 50 languages. Judas involves arguments about the Israeli-Arab conflict in allegorical manner, as well as theological and political arguments about the founding of Israel and the origins of Christianity.

Note, the Foreign Fiction Award nomination is the forth one. It was established in 2015. US author Ruth Ozeki, Turkish writer Orchan Pamuk, writer from Peru Mario Vargas Llosa have received the prize. 

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