In memory: Amos Kenan

Amos Kenan

On August the 4th, Amos Kenan, the columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist, passed away at age of 82.
Kenan was born in 1927 in South-Tel Aviv. He wrote the first anti-establishment column in Israel, the satirical “Uzi & Co”. He lived in Paris from 1954 until 1962, were he befriended Jean-Paul Sartre, Herbert Macuse and Noam Chomsky. In 1962, he received the Sam Spiegel Prize, in 1970 the Israel Cinema Council Prize and in 1998 the Brenner Prize.
His 1948 novel: “The Road to Ein-Harod“, was made into a film in 1990.
A great man is gone…