Israeli dramatists and playwrights

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: A. B. Yehoshua, Amos Kenan, Hanoch Levin, Motti Lerner, Ephraim Kishon, Joshua Sobol, Avraham Oz, Dahn Ben-Amotz, David Pinski, Moshe Shamir, Nava Semel, Nathan Alterman, Yitzhak Navon, Felix Kandel, Anton Shammas, Yigal Mossinson, Robbie Gringras, Nisim Aloni, Oren Lavie, Ya'akov Cohen, Yaakov Shabtai, Aharon Megged, Ephraim Sidon, Yitzhak Ben Ner, Yehonatan Geffen, Guy Hasson, Shmuel Hasfari, Yitzhak Laor, Dan Almagor, Josef Mundy. Excerpt: Abraham B. ("Bulli") Yehoshua (Hebrew: ¿) (born December 19, 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua. A.B. Yehoshua was born to a fifth-generation Jerusalem family of Sephardi origin. His father, Yaakov Yehoshua, was a scholar and author specializing in the history of Jerusalem. His mother, Malka Rosilio, immigrated from Morocco in 1932. Yehoshua served as a paratrooper in the Israeli army from 1954 to 1957. He attended Gymnasia Rehavia. After studying literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he began teaching. He lived in Jerusalem's Neve Sha'anan neighborhood. From 1963 to 1967 Yehoshua lived and taught in Paris and served as the General Secretary of the World Union of Jewish Students. Since 1972, he has taught Comparative and Hebrew Literature at the University of Haifa, where he holds the rank of Full Professor. In 1975 he was a writer-in-residence at St. Cross College, Oxford. He has also been a visiting professor at Harvard (1977) the University of Chicago (1988, 1997, 2000) and Princeton (1992). Yehoshua is married to Rivka, a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. They have a daughter and two sons, and six grandchildren. From the end of his military service, Yehoshua began to publish fiction. His first book of stories, "Mot Hazaken" (The Death of the Old Man) was published in 1962. He became a notable figure in the "new wave" generation of Israeli writers who differed from earlier writers in their focus on the individual and interpersonal rather than the group. Yehoshua names Franz Kafka, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, and William Faulkner as formative influences. Harold Bloom compared Yehoshua to Faulkner in an article in the New York Times and also mentions him in his book The Western Canon. Yehoshua is the author of nine novels (for a complete list see below), three books of short stories, four plays, and four collections of essays, most recently "Ahizat Moledet" (Homeland Lesson), a book of re