Amnon Shamosh is an Israel

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i author

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 and poet

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Shamosh was born in 1929 in Aleppo

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, Syria

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. In his childhood he immigrated to Palestine

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 and participated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War

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 in a Palmach

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 unit. He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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. He was a founder of kibbutz

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 Ma'ayan Barukh

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, where he has resided ever since. He engaged in education

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 and instruction. Among his novels are Michel Ezra Safra and Sons, My Sister the Bride (published 1979 in English by Massada Press), The Great Confession, and The Cedars of Lebanon. Among his books of stories and essays are With Me from Lebanon, Marrano Mountain (published 1992 in English by Massada Press), Calamus and Cinnamon, A Kibbutz is a Kibbutz is a Kibbutz, From the Source, and Autumn Stories, Fall Colors. He also wrote the non-fiction book Haketer, the Story of the Aleppo Codex

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. In Israel, Amnon Shamosh was awarded the President's Prize for Literature in 2001.