Amos Oz, one of the most important contemporary Israeli writers, was born Amos Klausner in 1939 in Jerusalem. He grew up in Jerusalem on Amos Street in the quarter Kerem Avraham, where most of his novels are set. He is one of the first Israelis who advocated the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict of the conflict after the Six-Day War. He did it back in 1967 in the article "Our Land ancestors" in the Davar newspaper . His first collection of stories, Where jackals zavijaju was published in 1965, and the first novel Perhaps Elsewhere in 1966. He has published so far about thirty books of stories, novels and essays, among which Moj stands out Michael , The Black Box , The Story of Love and Darkness... The winner is a number of prestigious awards - Israel Prize for Literature, Peace Prize of German publishers and booksellers, the Goethe Prize of the city of Frankfurt, the Prize Franz Kafka and many other important world awards and recognitions. His works are translated into more than forty world languages.