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Ada Aharoni | |
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Born | Cairo, Egypt | 30 July 1933
Nationality | Israeli, French |
Occupation(s) | Writer, poet, dramatist, sociologist |
Awards | Haifa Honorary Citizen Award.
Israeli President’s Award for peace culture. Laureate Tèmoignage Prize, Paris, 2014. Hebrew Writers Association: Honorary Award for creative works for the promotion of Hebrew Culture, 2017. |
Website | iflac |
Ada Aharoni (Hebrew: עדה אהרוני; born Andrée Yadid, 1933) is an Egyptian-born Israeli poet, writer, lecturer, sociologist and peace researcher. She has published numerous books of peace poetry, historical novels, sociology, history, biography, drama, film-scripts, literary criticism, and children's books. In her work she often focuses on the "Second Exodus", the uprooting of the Jews from Egypt, following the establishment of Israel in 1948, which she personally experienced. Aharoni is the founder and world president of The International Forum for the Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC).