Aharon Megged

Aharon Megged, born Greenberg in Włocławek in 1920, arrived in Palestine at the age of six, grew up in Raanana, where his father ran the school, and was for twelve years a member of kibbutz Sdot Yam. In 1952 he founded, with other writers, the weekly Massa, which he edited for many years; he was literary editor of Lamerhav and of Davar, cultural attaché in London from 1968 to 1971, then guest writer at Oxford and in Iowa. Author of more than thirty books and of plays staged at Habima, winner of the Bialik Prize and the Israel Prize in 2003, he died in Tel Aviv on 23 March 2016.

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