Yehoshua Kenaz, one of Israel's greatest writers, has died

On October 12, 2020, the Israeli daily Haaretz announced the death of author Yehoshua Kenaz.

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He was considered one of the greatest Israeli novelists.

Yehoshua Kenaz died of coronavirus on Monday, the

daily revealed

.

He was 83 years old.

Born in Mandatory Palestine in 1937, he was a specialist in French literature.

He also translated into Hebrew the books of Balzac, Stendhal or Sartre, among other French authors.

He had also introduced Commissioner Maigret to the Israelis, through his translations of several novels by Belgian Georges Simenon.

הסופר והמתרגם יהושע קנז מת מקורונה בגיל 83 https://t.co/hODHxL98Tl

- Haaretz הארץ (@Haaretz) October 12, 2020

A former student of the Sorbonne in Paris, he has seen eight of his novels translated into French - while his very first book,

, published in 1964, was never published in the language of Molière… “Israel c ' is home and France is the world, ”he said, according to

.

Committed to peace between Palestinians and Israelis

Militant for the two-state solution - an Israeli state alongside a Palestinian state - he was a friend of the novelist Amos Oz, who died in 2018, also committed to peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

Yehoshua Kenaz had worked for

for thirty years

, where he edited the weekly cultural supplement.

Giving few interviews, he said in 2013 to the newspaper

, when his last novel appeared: "I am curious to see what is happening with others but I prefer to live on the fringes", he declared. .

President Reuven Rivlin paid tribute to the author on Twitter, citing "a great loss to Israeli culture".

Faced with a resurgence of the epidemic, Israel has been reconfined since September 18.

The country has officially registered 292,230 cases, including 1,993 deaths.

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