Lea Aini | |
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לאה איני | |
Born | 1962 Tel Aviv, Israel |
Nationality | Israel |
Occupation(s) | Author, poet |
Notable work | The Rose of Lebanon |
Awards | Wertheim Prize for Poetry (1988), Adler Prize for Poetry (1988), Prime Minister's award for Hebrew Literature (1993, 2003), Tel Aviv Foundation Award (1994), Bernstein Prize (2006), Bialik Prize (2010) |
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.