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Which writers belonged to Israel’s New Wave of prose writers?
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Hebrew literature
S.Y. Agnon.
The "New Wave" refers to a generation of Israeli prose writers who began publishing in the late 1950s and 1960s. While many writers of this period initially sought to distance themselves from direct preoccupations with Israeli reality, they are collectively recognized for their significant contributions to Hebrew literature.1
Key writers associated with the New Wave include:
- A.B. Yehoshua1
- Amos Oz1
- Ya'akov Shabtai1
- Shimon Ballas1
- Amalia Kahana-Carmon1
- Pinhas Sadeh1
- Yitzhak Orpaz1
- Yoram Kaniuk1
- Yitzhak Ben Ner1