Lea Aini (Hebrew: לאה איני) (born 1962 Tel Aviv), is an Israeli author and poet, who has written over twenty books.^[1]

Her 2009 novel The Rose of Lebanon, her eighth prose book, deals with the stories that a female soldier volunteer tells about her childhood as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor from Saloniki.

Awards

• In 1988, Eini won the Wertheim Prize for Poetry and the Adler Prize for Poetry.
• In 1993, she was awarded the Prime Minister's award for Hebrew Literature, which she received again in 2003.^[1]
• In 1994, she received the Tel Aviv Foundation Award.
• In 2006, she received the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew language play category).^[2]
• In 2010, she was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature, (jointly with Shlomit Cohen-Assif and Mordechai Geldman).

Books Published in Hebrew^[2]2">edit

Poetryedit

• Diokan ("Portrait"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1988
• Keisarit Ha-Pirion Ha-Medumeh ("The Empress of Imagined Fertility"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1991

Short fictionedit

• Giborei Kayits ("The Sea Horse Race" - stories & novella), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1991
• Hardufim, O Sipurim Mur`alim Al Ahava ("Oleanders or Poisoned Love Stories" - stories) Zmora Bitan, 1997
• Sdommel (novella & two stories), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 2001

Novelsedit

• Geut Ha-Hol ("Sand Tide"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1992
• Mishehi Tzricha Lihiot Kan ("Someone Must Be Here"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1995
• Ashtoret ("Astarte"), Zmora Bitan, 1999
• Anak, Malka ve-Aman Hamiskhakim ("Giant, Queen, and the Master of Games"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2004
• Vered Ha-Levanon ("Rose of Lebanon"), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2009
• Susit ("Horsey"), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2012
• Bat ha-Makom ("The Native" - novel & novella), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2014

Youth titlesedit

• Tikrah Li Mi-Lemata ("Call Me from Downstairs"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1994
• Hei, Yuli ("Hi, Yuli"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1995

Children's titlesedit

• Mar Arnav Mehapes Avoda ("Mr. Rabbit's Job Hunt"), Am Oved, 1994
• Hetzi Ve-Ananas: Tamnunina ("Half-Pint and Wandercloud: Octopina"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1996
• Shir Ani, Shir Eema ("One Song Me, One Song Mummy"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2000
• Kuku Petrozilia ("Parsley Ponytail"), Kinneret, 2002

See alsoedit

• List of Bialik Prize recipients

Referencesedit

External linksedit

• "Not only spiritual leaders, but also the moon can teach Bible." Poetry International Centre, May 2, 2005