יורם קניוק
Born 1930 · Israel
Sapir 2010 · Winner
תש"ח · Tashah
Yoram Kaniuk · 80 when first published
Novel · 190 pages · War, Historical, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:A seventeen-year-old from a good Tel Aviv family joins the Palmach in 1948 and fights on the road to Jerusalem; sixty years later he tries to recall what really happened, unsure his memory can be trusted.
Sapir 2004 · Shortlist
חיים על נייר זכוכית · Hayim al neyar zekhukhit
Yoram Kaniuk · 73 when first published
Novel · 417 pages · Autofiction
AI-generated summary:After recovering from wounds suffered in Israel's War of Independence, the author recalls his years as a young painter in 1950s New York, a time of hunger for passion and for a life unlike the one he had known.