Thursday, 28 April 2022 - 00:10
Yair Qedar (2021)
Documentary, 57 min, Israel
PARTNERSHIP WITH
BLUE METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL
V.O. Hebrew, S.T. English
A Q&A between Montreal journalist Elias Levy and Israeli author A.B. Yehoshua will be presented during this literary festival.
The story of A. B. Yehoshua, the greatest Israeli writer living today – who is dealing with a serious illness, widowhood and loneliness, but chooses love and embarks on his final journey. A rare and fascinating look at one of our beloved writers.
BIOGRAPHY
Avraham ‘Boolie’ Yehoshua, also known as A. B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist born December 9, 1936 in Jerusalem. He belongs to the fifth generation of Sephardic Jews living in Israel. Avraham Yehoshua embraced the career of a writer upon the end of his military service. He writes numerous novels and is considered one of the most brilliant contemporary authors in Israel and beyond. His books, translated into 28 languages, have won him numerous literary awards, including the prestigious Israel Literature Grand Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 1995. He received the 2012 Foreign Medici Prize for his novel Retrospective. Avraham Yehoshua is also committed to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and participated in the Geneva Initiative.
AWARDS and HONORS
- 1972: Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
- 1983: Brenner Prize
- 1986: Alterman Prize
- 1989: Bialik Prize for literature (jointly with Avner Treinin)
- 1990: National Jewish Book Award for Five seasons
- 1990: Koret Jewish Book Award in the U.S
- 1990: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize in the United Kingdom
- 1995: Israel Prize for Hebrew literature
- 2003: Premio Napoli and Lampedusa Literary Prize for his novel The Liberated Bride
- 2005: Short listed for the First Man Booker International Prize
- 2006: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for A Woman in Jerusalem
- 2008: Grinzane Cavour Award, Flaiano Superprize, Giovanni Boccaccio Prize, and Viareggio Prize for Lifetime Achievement
- 2008: Premio Roma for Friendly Fire
- 2012: Prix Medicis étranger for The Retrospective
- 2017: Dan David Prize Award
- Honorary doctorates from Hebrew Union College (1990), Tel Aviv University (1998) Torino University (1999), Bar-Ilan University (2000), and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2012)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Novels
- – The Lover (1977)
- – A Late Divorce (1982)
- – Five Seasons (1987)
- – Mr. Mani (1989)
- – Open Heart (1994)
- – A Journey to the End of the Millennium (1997)
- – The Liberated Bride (2001)
- – A Woman in Jerusalem (2004)
- – Friendly Fire: A Duet (2007)
- – The Retrospective (2013)
- – The Extra (2014)
- – The Tunnel (2020)
Short stories
- – Early in the Summer of 1970 (1972)
- – Three Days and a Child (1975)
- – The Continuing Silence of a Poet (1988)
Essays
- – Israel (1988)
- – Between Right and Right (1980)
- – The Terrible Power of a Minor Guilt (1998)
- – An Attempt to Identify the Root Cause of Antisemitism (2008)
PRESS REVIEW
Lives of Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua illuminated in new films
The Jerusalem Post 2020