Yitzhak Orpaz
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Yitzhak Orpaz | |
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| Native name | יצחק אורפז |
| Born | October 15, 1921 |
| Died | (aged 93) |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Children | 4 |
Yitzhak Orpaz (né Averbuch, Hebrew: יצחק אוורבוך אורפז; 15 October 1921 – 14 August 2015) was an Israeli writer.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Yitzhak Orpaz was born in Zinkiv in Soviet Ukraine. He immigrated to Mandatory Palestine at the age of 17.
In 1942, Orpaz found out that his parents and sister had all died in the Holocaust.[2] Afterwards, he enlisted in the British Army and served in the Jewish Brigade during the Second World War.[3] After returning to British Palestine, he shortly worked as a diamond polisher before returning to the battlefield, this time in the Israel Defense Forces during the 1947–1949 Palestine war. After the war he served in the regular army.
He studied philosophy and Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University.[2]
In 1949, he published his first story in the military journal Ba-Mahaneh. During readings of the story on the radio, he was asked to Hebraize his name, and he changed his last name from "Averbuch" to "Orpaz".
His first book Wild Grass was published in 1959.
As part of his process of "returning to the roots", Orpaz re-adopted the original surname of Averbuch, previously abandoned by his family for the sake of "Israeliness".[4]
Awards
[edit | edit source]Orpaz has received the following awards:[3]
- Asher Barash Prize (1962)
- Miriam Talpir Prize (1969)
- Fichman Prize (1975)
- Prime Minister's Prize (1976, 1999, 2004)
- Israel Efrat Award (1985)
- Bialik Prize (1986)
- Neuman Prize (1997)
- President's Prize for Lifetime Achievement (1999)
- In 2005, Orpaz was awarded the Israel Prize for literature.[5]
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Yitzhak Orpaz Archived 23 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine bibliography at the Institute for Translation of Hebrew Literature.
- Israel Prize Official Site - CV of Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach (in Hebrew)
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- 1923 births
- 2015 deaths
- Jews from Mandatory Palestine
- Soviet Jews
- Jewish Israeli writers
- Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
- Israeli military personnel of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- Israel Prize in literature recipients
- Tel Aviv University alumni
- Israeli novelists
- International Writing Program alumni
- Jewish Brigade personnel
- Recipients of Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
- People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast
- Bialik Prize recipients