Teaching Positions

1963-1986 - Teacher of Literature and Philosophy, Hulda high school and regional high school at Givat Brenner.
1969-1970 - Visiting Fellow at St. Cross College, Oxford, England.
1975-1976 - Writer in Residence, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1980 - Writer in Residence, University of California, Berkeley.
1984-1985 - Writer in Residence/Professor of literature, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.
1987 - Writer in Residence Visiting Professor of Literature, Boston University, Massachusette.
1987-2005 - Full Professor of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba.
1989 - Elected member of the Catalan Institute of the Mediterranean, Barcelona, Spain.
1990 - Writer in Residence, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1991 - Elected to full membership in the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
1993 - Agnon Chair in Modern Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba.
1996 - Writer in Residence, Tel Aviv University.
1997 -  Writer in Residence/Visiting Professor of Literature, Princeton University (Old Dominion Fellowship).
1998 - Weidenfeld Professor of European and Comparative Literature, Oxford University.
2001 - Visiting Writer, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (Patten Lecturer).
2002 - Visiting Writer, Tübingen University, Germany (Poetic Dozent).
2007 - Visiting Writer, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

Political Activity

In the early 1960’s, Amos Oz was active in the social-democrat group Min Hayesod, which opposed the personality cult surrounding Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion as well as his state centralism.
Since the 1967 Six Day War, he has been active in various groups and organizations of the Israeli Peace movement, which advocates a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He was involved in the Committee for Peace and Security (1967) and in the Moked and Sheli movements, and has been among the chief spokesmen of the Peace Now movement since its founding in 1977.
Since 2003 Amos Oz is one of the leaders of “The Geneva Initiative” – an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Movement. In 2008 he was one of the funders of "The New Movement – Meretz"

1988 - Prix Femina, for best foreign novel appearing in France (for Black Box). Wingate Prize, London (for Black Box). Honorary Doctorate, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati OH and Jerusalem. Honorary Doctorate, Western New England College Springfield, MA.

1992 - Honorary Doctorate Tel Aviv University. Peace Prize at Frankfurt International Book Fair, awarded by German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association.

1993 - Luchs Prize for Children's Literature, Bremen Germany (for Sumchi). Hamoré Prize for Children's Literature, France (for Soumchi).

1994 - Maurice A. Stiller Prize for Literature, Baltimore Hebrew University, MD.

1997 - Knight's Cross of the Legion D'Honneur of the Republic of France, awarded by President Jacques Chirac. Blue Cobra Award, Switzerland (for Panther in the Basement).

1998 - Honorary Doctorate, Brandeis University, MA. Israel Prize for Literature – Israel Jubilee Year.

1999 - Elected Honorary Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford England. My Michael selected by Bertelsmann international publishers' panel of judges and readers' club as one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th Century. My Michael selected as one of the five best foreign novels appearing in China.

2002 - Freedom of Expression Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Authors' Union. International Medal of Tolerance, awarded by the polish Ecumenical Council.

2003 - Wizo-France award for Israeli Literature (for The Same Sea). Preis Der Geschwister Korn-und-Gerstenmann-Stiftung (Germany).

2004 - Prix “France Culture" for A Tale of Love and Darkness. International "Ovidius Literary Prize", from Romania's writes union, for his literary merit and his peace work. Catalonia International Prize (Shared with Sari Nusseibeh) for “A Tale of Love and Darkness". International “Die Welt" Literary Award (Berlin) for “A Tale of Love and Darkness". International Prize for Autobiography "Viajes Con Cuaderno" (Spain). Sandro Onofri Literary Prize (Roma) for “A Tale of Love and Darkness". Lombardia Peace Prize (Milano).

2005 - Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Vienna) for “A Tale of Love and Darkness". Nominated “Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters", French Republic. KORET Jewish Book Awards (USA) for “A Tale of Love and Darkness". Goethe Prize (Frankfurt) for lifetime literary and essayistic work,  with and emphasis on  "A Tale of Love and Darkness". Wingate Prize, London for “A Tale of Love and Darkness". Nominated Honorary Member of the Hellenic author's Society (Greece). Professor Emeritus from Ben Gurion University (Beer-Sheva, Israel).

2006 - Honorary Doctorate, the Jewish Theological Seminary. National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council for "A Tale of Love and Darkness". Honorary Doctorate, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. SY Agnon Prize (Jerusalem) for "A Tale of Love and Darkness. Honorary Doctorate, Weitzman Institute (Rehovot). Prix Europa, (Berlin). Corine International Book Award (Germany).

2007 - Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ambrogino D'Oro Medal, awarded by the city of Milan. Nominated "Man of the Year by Tel-Aviv Museum of Art. Premio Grinzane Cavour (Italy). Prince of Asturias Prize (Spain). The Cross of Honour of the Federal Republic of Germany. "Maggid" Award from the World Union of Progressive Judaism in Israel. Honorary citizenship of Pordenone (Italy)

2008 - Stefan Heym Prize, City of Chemnitz, Germany. Dan David Prize (Tel Aviv University). Honorary Doctorate, University of Antwerp. Primo Levi Prize, Genova. Ulisses Prize, Genova. Heinrich Heine Prize, City of Dusseldorf Germany. Honorary Doctorate, Ben Gurion University (Beer-Sheva, Israel).

2009 - Jonas Weiss Memorial Award (Sweden).

2010 - Book fair prize, Budapest (for "Rhyming Life and Death"). Honorary Fellow of the Israel Museum (May, 2010, Jerusalem). The Prix Mediterrannee award. The readers' Award in Torino Festival. Siegfried Unseld's award, Germany. Honorary Doctorate, Siena University of Foreigners. The Readers Prize Of Torino Intl. Literary Festival. Prix Mediterranee Etranger, France (for “scenes From A Village Life"). Napoli Prize (for “Scenes From A Village Life").

2011 - “The Same Sea" adapted for the stage (in Tel Aviv) and as an opera (Bari, Italy). Honorary Doctorate, Melbourne University. Honorary Doctorate, Bucharest University

2012 - Italy's Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa literary prize for “The Hill of Evil Counsel"

2002-2012 - A Tale Of Love And Darkness translated into 29 languages,
wins 10 awards in 9 countries and sells over 1 million copies.

2013 - Honorary Doctorate, Lodge University. Franz Kafka Prize in the Czech Republic, for his works that “appeal to readers regardless of their origin, nationality and culture." Newman Prize for Literature by The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in recognition of his continues literary work.