Daniella Carmi

Daniella Carmi (; born on September 1, 1941) is an Israeli novelist who writes in Hebrew and French. She writes drama, screenplays and books for adults, children and youth. Her books were translated ion many languages.

She was born it Tel Aviv to a family of French speaking Polish-born Jewish parents, German Munich, Hanser, 1998 Dutch Baarn, Fontein, 2002 French Paris, Gallimard, 2003 Italian Milan, Mondadori, 2004 About the friendship of two Israeli girls from an institution for "problem girls" and a young Palestinian man. One of the girls is adopted by a Gazan father and through him she gets familiar with the life of "gypsies" - Palestinians without homeland (from book cover) 2017: La famille Yassine et Lucy dans les cieux [The Yassine Family and Lucy in the Skies] (in French) Nadia and Salim Yassine, a Palestinian couple from Israel, cannot have children. They adopt a child, Nathanaël, who turned out to be autistic. The title is a hint to the song of the Beatles, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", referring to the plot line when they overhear the boy humming in English the song about strawberries and they finally find out the song was "Strawberry Fields Forever" of the Beatles. When they let the boy listen the song, he speaks for the first time. 2002: דניאלה כרמי Four women hospitalized in Room Seven of a psychiatric institution are joined by Zohra after her suicide attempt. 2020: [Golden Olive of the Zionist Idea] A collection of short stories about women trying to change their lives (and lives of thers) in the troubled area of Israel/Palestine

Awards Samir and Yonatan on Mars was awarded: 1997: Honorable Mention from UNESCO for Children and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance 2003: WIZO Prize, Italy