Amos Oz, Giant Of Israeli Literature, Dead At 79

“The author of 18 books in Hebrew and a longtime candidate for the Nobel Prize for literature, Oz was best known for novels including Black Box, In the Land of Israel and A Tale of Love and Darkness, his bestselling autobiographical novel. Much of his work, both fiction and non-fiction, explored kibbutz life and picked apart his characters’ often complex relationships with Israel and modern politics – reflective of his own. — The Guardian