Leah 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 2010, she was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature, (jointly with Shlomit Cohen-Assif and Mordechai Geldman).

Books published in Hebrew Source: 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 ("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 titles Tikrah Li Mi-Lemata ("Call Me from Downstairs"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1994 Hei, Yuli ("Hi, Yuli"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1995

Children's titles 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