Lea Aini

Lea Aini
לאה איני
Lea Aini
Born1962
Tel Aviv, Israel
Nationality Israel
Occupation(s)Author, poet
Notable workThe Rose of Lebanon
AwardsWertheim 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.

  1. ^ Lev-Ari, Shiri (2003-12-01). ארבעה-עשר סופרים זכו בפרס ראש הממשלה [Fourteen Authors Win Prime Minister's Award] (in Hebrew). HaAretz, Walla! News. Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2010-06-22.