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]
Sholam Smith studied industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and literature at Tel Aviv University.[1]
Books
[edit]Children's books
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 2009: Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works[1]
- 2011,[6] 2015: ACUM award[1]
- 2014: Devorah Omer Prize for A Treasury of Hebrew Legends for Children[1]
- 2017, 2021: Lea Goldberg Prize for My Aunt Lea Goldberg[1]
- 2018: Bialik Prize[7]
Personal
[edit]In the mid-1990s, she married translator Amnon Katz, and they have three children.[8] They divorced after 26 years of marriage.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Shoham Smith
- ^ סמיט שהם
- ^ [https://www.dafdaf.co.il/Details.asp?MenuID=2&PageID=1096 שהם סמיט]
- ^ Who Drank My Juice?
- ^ Things that My Heart Fails to Tell
- ^ פרס אקו"ם למפעל חיים יוענק לרות אלמוג, Haaretz, January 10, 2011
- ^ הוכרזו זוכי פרס ביאליק: הסופרים סמי ברדוגו ושהם סמיט והמשורר אהרן שבתאי
- ^ איך הם עושים את זה: שהם סמיט ואמנון כץ, Makor Rishon, July 31, 2009
- ^ בספר הילדים החדש שלה שהם סמיט מציפה נושא מפתיע: סקס, Haaretz, September 2, 2021