Sami Michael

Sami Michael
סמי מיכאל‎
Sami Michael; סמי מיכאל‎
Born	Kamal Salah; August 15, 1926; Baghdad, Iraq
Citizenship	Israeli; Iraqi (till 1950)
Occupation(s)	Author; was President of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI).
Spouse	Rachel Yonah Michael
Partner(s)	Malka ; Rachel Yona
Children	Dikla ; Amir
Awards	1992 Hans Christian Andersen Award; 2001 special prize by Society for International Development (SID), United Nations and Italian Association for the Promotion of Peace in the Middle East (AISI), Italy; 2004 Brenner Prize; 2005 The President and The Hebrew University Prize; 2007 EMET Prize; 2012 ACUM Lifetime Achievement Award for literature; Honorary doctorates from The Hebrew University, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa;

Sami Michael (Hebrew: סמי מיכאל, Arabic: سامي ميخائيل; born August 15, 1926) is an Israeli author, having migrated from Iraq to Israel at the age of 23. Since 2001, Michael has been the President of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI).

Michael was among the first in Israel to call for the creation of an independent Palestinian state to exist alongside Israel. In his novels, Michael writes about the aspirations and struggles of both Jews and Arabs. This new approach in modern Hebrew literature was controversial and has been widely discussed in universities and in the media. Michael was awarded the EMET Prize in 2007. Michael defines himself not as a Zionist, but as an Israeli in order to make room for the inclusion of all citizens in Israel.

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