NYT: Amos Oz dies at 79
In novels and essays, the Israeli author weathered Israel’s upheavals and pried into its divisions like an angry, secular prophet, Isabel Kershner reports
JERUSALEM — Amos Oz, the renowned Israeli author whose work captured the characters and landscapes of his young nation, and who matured into a leading moral voice and an insistent advocate for peace with the Palestinians, died on Friday. He was 79.
His death was announced by his daughter Fania Oz-Salzberger, who wroteon Twitter that he had died after a short battle with cancer, “in his sleep, peacefully.” She did not say where he died.
In recent years Mr. Oz had been living in Tel Aviv.
One of Israel’s most prolific writers and respected intellectuals, Mr. Oz began storytelling in his early 20s. He published more than a dozen novels, including “My Michael” and “Black Box,” as well as collections of short fiction, works of nonfiction and many essays. His work was translated into more than 35 languages. …
