Yitzhak Ben-Ner

Yitzhak Ben-Ner, born on 3 July 1937 at the moshav of Kfar Yehoshua, was writing in children's newspapers from the age of fourteen, encouraged by Binyamin Tammuz. He was a recruit instructor during his service, studied literature and drama at Tel Aviv University, and was for a long time an editor and presenter on army radio; he launched the satirical supplement of the daily Davar. His plays have been staged at Habima and the Cameri, and one of them in London in 1998. Winner of the Agnon Prize in 1981, he withdrew his candidacy for the Israel Prize in 2015. He lives in Tel Aviv.

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• NovelThe Man from Thereהאיש משםYitzhak Ben-Ner · 1967Literature