Hanah Senesh

In Hebrew, vowelized. (2), 50 pages. 230 x 155 mm. Last leaf has damage to blank margin at the top. See image here. Aharon Megged (10 August 1920 - 23 March 2016) was an Israeli author and playwright. In 2003, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature. He was born Aharon Greenberg in Wloclawek, Poland and immigrated with his parents to Mandate Palestine in 1926. He grew up in Ra'anana, attended Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv. After graduation, he joined a Zionist pioneering youth movement, trained at Kibbutz Giv'at Brenner and was then a member of Kibbutz Sdot Yam for twelve years. Megged was one of the founders of the Masa literary weekly, and served as its editor for fifteen years. He worked as a literary editor for the Hebrew newspapers LaMmerkhav and Davar. In 1977/78 he was author-in-residence at the Center for Hebrew Studies affiliated with Oxford University. He made several lecture tours of the United States, and was also author-in-residence at the University of Iowa. He published 35 books. Megged's plays were performed at Habima, Ha-Ohel and other theaters. His books have been translated into numerous languages and published in the United Kingdom, the United States, Argentina, France, and other countries. From 1968 to 1971, Megged served as cultural attaché to the Israeli embassy in London. In 1974, Megged won the Bialik Prize for his books The Evyatar Notebooks: a novel and Of Trees and Stones. In 2003, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for literature. Megged won the Brenner Prize, the S.Y. Agnon Prize, and the Prime Minister's Prize.