"The desert means a great deal to me," says Amos Oz, the Israeli novelist.

In Human Parts (2002) she was the first Israeli novelist to address the subject of Palestinian suicide bombings.

Did you learn more about the country in the course of reporting the article or did you always have an interest in Israeli novelists?

Ladbrokes's "novelty traders" are in agreement with both of them this year, making the Israeli novelist the hot favourite at 4/1.

He is not just one of the greatest Israeli novelists today.

Did you see what the Israeli novelist and peacenik Amos Oz said last week?

Amos Oz, the Israeli novelist, started and ended his address last night with the words, "What was, will not be again."

Where I am sitting right now," the Israeli novelist said during a recent telephone interview, "overlooks a tiny garden and a wall.

Take, for example, Hazony's analysis of Israeli novelists.

The Israeli novelist argues that literature can and must deal with the Holocaust or give up its pretensions to be a vehicle of spiritual apprehension.