Yitzhak Ben Ner is an influential Israeli writer, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, journalist

Journalist

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, and film critic. He has also hosted and edited radio and TV programs.

Biography

Ben Ner was born in 1937 in Kfar Yehoshua

Kfar Yehoshua

Kfar Yehoshua is a moshav in northern Israel. Located between Carmel City and Nazareth, it falls under the jurisdiction of Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2006 it had a population of 732....

, Israel

Israel

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He attended Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

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 where he studied literature and drama. He started publishing as a boy, and published his first book for adults in 1967. Several books of his have been adapted for theatrical or cinematic productions.

His books and stories have been translated into many languages.

Awards

• In 1981, Be'er was awarded the Bernstein Prize
  Bernstein Prize
  The Bernstein Prize is an annual Israeli literary award for writers 50 years of age and younger. The prize is awarded by the Bernstein Foundation, named after Mordechai Bernstein, who left money in his estate to establish a foundation in order to encourage young Hebrew writers...
  
   (original Hebrew novel category).
• In 1981, he was awarded the Agnon-Jerusalem Prize
• In 1983, he received the Ramat Gan Prize for Literature.
• His play Ta'atuon won First Prize at the 1990 Theatroneto Festival.
• In 2005, he was awarded Prime Minister's Prize.

Books

• After the Field-Burner (children), 1967
• The Man From There (novel), 1967
• Rustic Sunset (story collection), 1976
• Kishona, Children of the River (children), 1977
• After the Rain (3 stories), 1979
• My Friend Emmanuel and I (children), 1979
• A Far Land (novel in stories), 1981
• Protokol (novel), 1982
• Angels are Coming (novel), 1987
• Ta'atuon (novel), 1989
• Jeans, a Dog (children), 1991
• Morning of Fools (novel), 1992
• Bears and Woods (novel), 1995
• Enemy Scope (novel), 1997
• City of Refuge (novel), 2000
• Nobody's Ever Died Walking (novel), 2007

Film and television

• Again, Forever (feature film, wrote story and screenplay), 1985
• Atalia (feature film, wrote story), 1986
• The Class Queen (feature film, as actor) 1988
• Winter Games (TV drama, wrote story) 1989
• Nili (documentary feature film, wrote screenplay and directed), 1996
• Enemy Scope, (TV mini-series, screenplay based on his novel), 1999
• "Nicole's Stations" (wrote screenplay. Based on his novel Rustic Sunset. Co-writer: Rony Gruber)
  Rony Gruber
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  , 2001

Plays

• David August (monodrama, based on his story), 1983
• Ta'atuon (monodrama, based on his novel)
• A Far Land (monodrama, based on his story), 1992
• Morning of Fools (monodrama, based on his novel)
• Uri Muri (drama), 1999

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