Novelist Amos Oz: Sept. 18

Novelist and journalist Amos Oz will visit the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Thursday, Sept. 18 to discuss, "Israel and the Question of Global Anti-Semitism." The public portion of the program begins at 6:45 p.m., with free seating on a first-come basis.
Oz is Israel's best-known novelist and a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. He has long been identified for his advocacy of a two-state solution that would effect a secure division of Israel and Palestine. Oz began writing ceaselessly in 1961, first contributing articles to the kibbutz newsletter and the newspaper Davar, and eventually publishing nearly a book per year, beginning with his first collection of stories Where the Jackals Howl (1965) and his first novel, Elsewhere, Perhaps (1966).
He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and citations, including the Israel Prize for Literature in 1998 (the 50th anniversary of Israel's independence), the Goethe Prize in 2005, and the Heinrich Heine Prize in 2008. His works, which besides his novels include more than 450 articles and essays, have been translated into more than 30 languages.
The Athenaeum is located at 385 East Eighth St., at the intersection of Eighth and Amherst streets in Claremont. Oz's presentation is sponsored by The Family of the Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.