Aharon Megged

Aharon Megged was born in 1920 in Włocławek

Aharon Megged was born Aharon Greenberg in Włocławek, Poland, in 1920. In 1926 he moved with his parents to Mandate Palestine and grew up in Ra'anana. He studied at the Herzliya high school in Tel Aviv and joined the HaMahanot HaOlim youth movement.

After school he trained at Kibbutz Giv'at Brenner and became a member of Kibbutz Sdot Yam. He wrote his first story in 1943 and later went on a mission to the United States, returning in 1948. In 1950 he wrote his first book and left the kibbutz for Tel Aviv.

In 1952 he helped found the literary weekly Masa and served as its editor. He was a literary editor at La-merhav and Davar, and from 1968 to 1971 he was cultural attaché at the Israeli embassy in London. His plays were staged at Habima and Ha-Ohel, and his books were translated into several languages.

His novel Hedva and I became the basis of Hedva and Shlomik, the first drama series of Israeli television, in 1971. He was a guest writer at Oxford in 1977 and 1978 and at the University of Iowa. He was married to writer Eda Zoritte and died in 2016.