Amalia Kahana-Carmon (born 1926) is an Israel

Israel

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i author, educator, and recipient of the Israel Prize

Israel Prize

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 for literature (2000).

Kahana was born at Kibbutz

Kibbutz

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 Ein Harod

Ein Harod

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. Her father, Haim Kahana, was one of the founders of the kibbutz. She moved to Tel Aviv

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, where she studied at the Herzliya secondary school. During the Israeli War of Independence she served in the Negev Brigade of Palmach

Palmach

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 as a signals operator and wrote the famous telegram for the capture of Eilat. She received a master's degree in literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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 in 1964.

Awards

• In 1985, Kahana was awarded the Brenner Prize
  Brenner Prize
  The Brenner Prize is an Israeli literary prize awarded annually by the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel and the Haft Family Foundation.It was founded in the name of the author Yosef Haim Brenner and was first awarded in 1945....
  
   for literature.
• In 2000, she was awarded the Israel Prize
  Israel Prize
  The Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
  
  , for original Hebrew literature.

Works of fiction in Hebrew

• Under One Roof (1966)
• And Moon in the Valley of Ayalon (1971)
• A Piece for the Stage, in the Grand Manner (1975)
• Magnetic Fields (1977)
• High Stakes (1980)
• Up in Montifer (1984)
• With Her on Her Way Home (1991)
• Here We'll Live (1996)

Further reading

• "Amalia Kahana-Carmon" at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature. Retrieved July 10, 2005.
• Much of the content of this article comes from the article "עמליה כהנא כרמון" (Amalia Kahana-Carmon) in the Hebrew-language Wikipedia, retrieved July 10, 2005.

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients