Shoham Smith

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Shoham Smith (Hebrew: שהם סמיט; born 1966) is an Israeli writer and translator, best known as a children's books writer.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Shoham Smith, 2017

Sholam Smith studied industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and literature at Tel Aviv University.^[1]

Books

Children's books

2019: Who Invented School Anyway?
2018: (with Eitan Eloa) The brides’ dressess
2017: Sand Dunes Child: Six Stories in the Footsteps of S. Yizhar
2016: My Aunt Lea Goldberg
2016: The Legend of Kamtza and Bar-Kamtza
2016: Avera: The Journey to Painting
2015: Yakinton: A Story about Friendship and Song
2015: The Legend of Astrid
2014: An After Bedtime Story (translated in English and French)
2013: Signs in the Well
2012: City Boy
2011: A Treasury of Hebrew Legends for Children
2010: Porridge for Daddy (translated in French and German)
2008: A Day in Jerusalem
2004: (with Rutu Modan) Who Drank My Juice?^[4]
1996: Things that My Heart Fails to Tell^[5]

Adult books

1996: לבי אומר כי זיכרוני בוגד בי My Heart Says That My Memory Betrays Me
2002: טייק אווי: קומדיה שחורה בחדר הלידה Takeaway: A Black Comedy in the Delivery Room

Awards

2009: Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works^[1]
2011,^[6] 2015: ACUM award^[1]
2014: Devorah Omer Prize [he] for A Treasury of Hebrew Legends for Children^[1]
2017, 2021: Lea Goldberg Prize [he] for My Aunt Lea Goldberg^[1]
2018: Bialik Prize^[7]

Personal

In the mid-1990s, she married translator Amnon Katz, and they have three children.^[8] They divorced after 26 years of marriage.^[9]

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