Lea Aini
Lea Aini () (born 1962 Tel Aviv), is an Israeli author and poet, who has written over twenty books. 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. In 1994, she received the Tel Aviv Foundation Award. In 2006, she received the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew language play category). In 2010, she was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature, (jointly with Shlomit Cohen-Assif and Mordechai Geldman). Books Published in Hebrew Poetry Diokan ("Portrait"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1988 Keisarit Ha-Pirion Ha-Medumeh ("The Empress of Imagined Fertility"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1991 Short fiction 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 Novels Geut Ha-Hol ("Sand Tide"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1992 Mishehi Tzricha Lihiot Kan