Israeli writer wins top honor from Chinese college students
Updated: 2016-06-29 10:24
By Xing Yi(China Daily)
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Israeli author Amos Oz has long been a favored Nobel Prize contender and has received dozens of literary prizes around the world-including the 21 University Students International Literary Award, which he received in Beijing last week.
A jury of 21 students from Renmin University's liberal arts school, ranging from undergraduates to doctoral students, selected the 77-year-old to receive the honor.
"I have received in my life maybe 40 or 50 literary prizes. All of them are from juries of professors and scholars. This is the first time I've received a prize from students," Oz tells China Daily after the ceremony.
"This is very special for me."
He jokes: "And I can assure you, if they never give me the Nobel Prize, I am not going to die an unhappy man."
Creative writing student and juror Zhang Chu quotes the citation: "With poetic language full of allusions and imagination, Mr Amos Oz pursues the hidden pains of the individual, family and the nation through his writing, depicting the intertwined fate of the state and the individual, and thereby expressing concerns for the reality of all human beings."
Oz was born in Jerusalem in 1939, nine years before Israel became a state.
His mother committed suicide when he was 12.
Two years later, he moved to a kibbutz-a community of collective farmers-where he started writing.
Oz's most famous work is his autobiographical novel, A Tale of Love and Darkness, published in 2002.
He examines the trials of his youth, and interweaves his family's tragedies and kibbutz life with Israel's establishment.
The book has been translated into more than 20 languages. Its Chinese edition was published in 2007.
In 2015, it was adapted into a film directed by and starring Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman. Its Asian premiere sold out in less than a minute during April's Beijing International Film Festival.
The students asked Oz how he felt about the film. He called Portman's efforts "wholehearted".
"I am very impressed by how much of herself she put into the film," says Oz.
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