Nathan Shaham


Nathan Shaham 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. 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.

Awards

Shaham was the winner of several literary awards, including the Bialik Prize, the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for Rosendorf Quartet, the Newman Prize, the ADAI-WIZO Prize for The Rosendorf Quartet, and the Prime Minister's Prize for [Hebrew Literary Works|Prime Minister's Prize].
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.

Works

Grain and Lead, Sifriat Poalim, 1948 The Gods Are Lazy, Sifriat Poalim, 1949 They'll Arrive Tomorrow, Sifriat Poalim, 1949 Call Me Siomka, Sifriat Poalim, 1950
  • "Yohanan Bar Hama", 1952Always Us, Sifriat Poalim, 1952 A Stone on the Well's Mouth, Sifriat Poalim, 1956
  • "Meetings in Moscow", 1957Veterans' Housing, Sifriat Poalim, 1958 The Wisdom of the Poor, Sifriat Poalim, 1960 Citrus Scent, Sifriat Poalim, 1962 The Journey to the Land of Kush, Massada, 1962
  • "That's Because", Sifriat Poalim, 1964The Book of Portraits, Sifriat Poalim, 1968 First Person Plural, Sifriat Poalim, 1968 Round Trip, Am Oved, 1972 Witness for the King, Am Oved, 1975 Talk to the Wind, Sifriat Poalim, 1975 The Other Side of the Wall, Am Oved, 1978 Green Autumn, Sifriat Poalim, 1979 Bone to the Bone, Am Oved, 1981 Still Silent Voice, Sifriat Poalim, 1983 Mountain and Home, Sifriat Poalim, 1984 The Streets of Ashkelon, Am Oved, 1985 Four in One Bar, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1987 The Rosendorf Quartet, Am Oved, 1987 . English translation Avalon Travel Publishing, 2000, Sealed Book, Sifriat Poalim, 1988 They'll Arrive Tomorrow, Or-Am, 1989 New Account, Or-Am, 1989 The Desert Generation, Sifriat Poalim, 1991 Series, Am Oved, 1992 Hot Dogs, Sifriat Poalim, 1993 The Heart of Tel Aviv, Am Oved, 1996 Expect a Letter, Sifriat Poalim, 1999 Rosendorf's Shadow, Am Oved, 2001 Tabula Rasa