Shoham Smith
Shoham Smith ({{langx|he|שהם סמיט}}, born 1966) is an Israeli writer and translator, best known as a children's books writer.[https://www.ithl.org.il/writer/shoham-smith/ Shoham Smith][https://heksherimlexicon.bgu.ac.il/lexicon-entry/%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%98-%D7%A9%D7%94%D7%9D/ סמיט שהם ][https://www.dafdaf.co.il/Details.asp?MenuID=2&PageID=1096
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Sholam Smith studied industrial design at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and literature at Tel Aviv University.
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?[https://www.ithl.org.il/book/who-drank-my-juice-with-rutu-modan/ Who Drank My Juice?]
- 1996: Things that My Heart Fails to Tell[https://www.ithl.org.il/book/things-that-my-heart-fails-to-tell/ Things that My Heart Fails to Tell]
Adult books
- 1996: {{lang|he|לבי אומר כי זיכרוני בוגד בי}} My Heart Says That My Memory Betrays Me
- 2002: {{lang|he|טייק אווי: קומדיה שחורה בחדר הלידה}} Takeaway: A Black Comedy in the Delivery Room
Awards
- 2009: Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
- 2011,[https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/2011-01-10/ty-article/0000017f-e794-df5f-a17f-ffde18bd0000 פרס אקו"ם למפעל חיים יוענק לרות אלמוג], Haaretz, January 10, 2011 2015: ACUM award
- 2014: {{ill|Devorah Omer Prize|he|פרס דבורה עומר}} for A Treasury of Hebrew Legends for Children
- 2017, 2021: {{ill|Lea Goldberg Prize|he|פרס לאה גולדברג}} for My Aunt Lea Goldberg
- 2018: Bialik Prize[https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/literature/2018-04-29/ty-article/0000017f-df08-db22-a17f-ffb9bb6d0000 הוכרזו זוכי פרס ביאליק: הסופרים סמי ברדוגו ושהם סמיט והמשורר אהרן שבתאי]
Personal
In the mid-1990s, she married translator Amnon Katz, and they have three children.[https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/online/55/ART1/923/993.html איך הם עושים את זה: שהם סמיט ואמנון כץ], Makor Rishon, July 31, 2009 They divorced after 26 years of marriage.[https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/galleryfriday/parenthood/2021-09-02/ty-article/.highlight/0000017f-ea19-df5f-a17f-fbdf63f40000 בספר הילדים החדש שלה שהם סמיט מציפה נושא מפתיע: סקס], Haaretz, September 2, 2021
References
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Category:21st-century Israeli writers