Although Yizhar remained in the public eye as an outstanding polemicist, he broke his decades-long literary silence only in 1992 with the publication of his novel, "Mikdamot" (Preliminaries). This was quickly followed by five additional new volumes of prose, both novels and collections of short stories, including "Tsalhavim", "Etsel Ha-Yam" (At Sea), "Tsedadiyim" (Asides), and "Malkomyah Yefehfiyah" (Beautiful Malcolmia). His last work, "Gilui Eliahu" (Discovering Elijah), set in the period of the Yom Kippur War, was published in 1999 and later adapted for the stage. The play won first prize at the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre in 2001. Yizhar also wrote stories for children in which he contended with the defining themes of his youth, as in "Oran and Ange" concerning the Israeli cultivation of citrus fruits; "Uncle Moshe's Chariot", a memoir of the character of his famous great uncle Moshe Smilansky; and others.