The Prisoner

S. Yizhar

1948

Shepherds and their flocks were scattered on the rocky hillsides, among the woods of low terebinth and the stretches of wild rose, and even along the swirling contours of valleys foaming with light, with those golden-green sparks of rustling summer grain under which the clodded earth, smelling of ancient soil, ripe and good, crumples to gray flour…

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Creator Bio

S. Yizhar

1916–2006

A novelist and children’s writer, S. Yizhar (Yizhar Smilansky) was born in Reḥovot. He fought in Israel’s War of Independence and held a seat in the Knesset. Yizhar taught education and literature at the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University. He was a recipient of the Israel Prize, the Brenner Prize, the Bialik Prize, and the Emet Prize. Yizhar’s Days of Tsiklag (1958) is considered a classic of Jewish literature.

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