{{Short description|Israeli author and poet}} {{Infobox person | name = Lea Aini | native_name = לאה איני | native_name_lang = he | image = Leah Aini.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Lea Aini | birth_date = 1962 | birth_place = Tel Aviv, Israel | occupation = Author, poet | notable_works = ''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''' ({{langx|he|לאה איני}}; born 1962 Tel Aviv), is an Israeli author and poet, who has written over twenty books.<ref name="walla">{{cite web|url=http://news.walla.co.il/?w=//472677|script-title=he:ארבעה-עשר סופרים זכו בפרס ראש הממשלה|trans-title=Fourteen Authors Win Prime Minister's Award|language=Hebrew|date=2003-12-01|publisher=HaAretz, Walla! News|first=Shiri|last=Lev-Ari|accessdate=2010-06-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610130343/http://news.walla.co.il/?w=%2F%2F472677|archive-date=2011-06-10|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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.
==Awards== *In 1988, Eini won the Wertheim Prize for Poetry and the Adler Prize for Poetry. *In 1993, she was awarded the Prime Minister's award for Hebrew Literature, which she received again in 2003.<ref name="walla"/> *In 1994, she received the Tel Aviv Foundation Award. *In 2006, she received the Bernstein Prize (original Hebrew language play category).<ref name="ITHL">{{cite web|url=http://www.ithl.org.il/page_13498|title=Leah (Lea) Aini|publisher=The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature|accessdate=2015-02-24}}</ref> *In 2010, she was awarded the Bialik Prize for literature, (jointly with Shlomit Cohen-Assif and Mordechai Geldman).
==Books published in Hebrew== Source:<ref name="ITHL"/> ===Poetry=== *''Diokan'' ("Portrait"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1988 *''Keisarit Ha-Pirion Ha-Medumeh'' ("The Empress of Imagined Fertility"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1991
===Short fiction=== *''Giborei Kayits'' ("The Sea Horse Race" - stories & novella), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1991 *''Hardufim, O Sipurim Mur`alim Al Ahava'' ("Oleanders or Poisoned Love Stories" - stories) Zmora Bitan, 1997 *''Sdommel'' (novella & two stories), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 2001
===Novels=== *''Geut Ha-Hol'' ("Sand Tide"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1992 *''Mishehi Tzricha Lihiot Kan'' ("Someone Must Be Here"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/Siman Kriah, 1995 *''Ashtoret'' ("Astarte"), Zmora Bitan, 1999 *''Anak, Malka ve-Aman Hamiskhakim'' ("Giant, Queen, and the Master of Games"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2004 *''Vered Ha-Levanon'' ("Rose of Lebanon"), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2009 *''Susit'' ("Horsey"), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2012 *''Bat ha-Makom'' ("The Native" - novel & novella), Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, 2014
===Youth titles=== *''Tikrah Li Mi-Lemata'' ("Call Me from Downstairs"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1994 *''Hei, Yuli'' ("Hi, Yuli"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1995
===Children's titles=== *''Mar Arnav Mehapes Avoda'' ("Mr. Rabbit's Job Hunt"), Am Oved, 1994 *''Hetzi Ve-Ananas: Tamnunina'' ("Half-Pint and Wandercloud: Octopina"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1996 *''Shir Ani, Shir Eema'' ("One Song Me, One Song Mummy"), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2000 *''Kuku Petrozilia'' ("Parsley Ponytail"), Kinneret, 2002
==See also== *List of Bialik Prize recipients
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://israel.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=3099&x=1 "Not only spiritual leaders, but also the moon can teach Bible."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929133843/http://israel.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=3099&x=1 |date=2011-09-29 }} ''Poetry International Centre'', May 2, 2005
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