A.B.Yehoshua

Born in Jerusalem in 1936, A. B. Yehoshua is the author of The Lover, The Continuing Silence of a Poet, Mr Mani, Open Heart, A Journey to the End of the Millennium and The Liberated Bride. He is one of Israel's pre-eminent novelists and has been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for his lifetime's creative contribution to Israel, the National Jewish Book Award in the US and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize in the UK. A.B.Yehoshua has recently been listed for Man Booker International Prize 2005.

''One of Israel's world-class writers'', Saul Bellow.

''An old-fashioned master...His chief asset is his belief in a powerful story deftly delivered,'' The Times Literary Supplement.

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