"Amalia Kahana-Carmon is often described as the Israeli Virginia Woolf. Though she belongs to the age group of the Palmach generation of the fifties, she is normally classified as one of the “New Wave” writers on a par with A. B. Yehoshua and Amos Oz."
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Esther Fuchs, Encounters with Israel Authors (1982)
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Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Amalia Kahana-Carmon (Hebrew: עמליה כהנא-כרמון) (18 October 1926 - 16 January 2019) was an author and literary critic who lived in Israel most of her life. She was awarded the Israel Prize for literature in 2000.
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