Alona Kimhi (born 1966) is an Israel

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i author and actress.

Biography

Alona Kimhi was born in Lvov, Ukraine

Ukraine

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 (then in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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), in 1966 and emigrated

Aliyah

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 to Israel with her family in 1972. Following her graduation from the Beit Zvi Academy for Performing Arts, she became a stage and film actress. In 1993, Kimhi started writing plays, lyrics and essays. Since 1996, she has published two novels, a collection of short stories and a book for children. She also wrote the lyrics to many of her partner Izhar Ashdot

Izhar Ashdot

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's songs.

In 2009, her novel Weeping Susanna was dramatized as a miniseries

Miniseries

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 for the Israeli cable TV channel Hot 3.

Her books have been published in 14 languages.

Awards

• In 1996, Kimhi was awarded the ACUM Book of the Year Prize for I, Anastasia.
• In 1999, she was the joint recipient of the Bernstein Prize
  Bernstein Prize
  The Bernstein Prize is an annual Israeli literary award for writers 50 years of age and younger. The prize is awarded by the Bernstein Foundation, named after Mordechai Bernstein, who left money in his estate to establish a foundation in order to encourage young Hebrew writers...
  
   (original Hebrew noval category), for her first novel, Weeping Susannah. The other prize recipient was Yocheved Reisman.
• In 2001, she received the French WIZO Prize.
• In 2001, she was awarded the Prime Minister's Prize.

Published works

Books Published in Hebrew

• I, Anastasia (stories), Keter, 1996 [Ani, Anastasia]
• Weeping Susannah (novel), Keter, 1999 [Susannah Ha-Bochiah]
• Lily La Tigresse (novel), Keter, 2004 [Lily La Tigresse]

Children

• Superbabe and the Enchanted Circle Jerusalem, Keter, 2001 [Mushlemet Ve Ha-Maagal Ha-Mechushaf]

Books in Translation

• I, Anastasia

English: London/New York,Toby Press, 2000

German: in paperback: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2005

French: Paris, Gallimard, 2008

• Weeping Susannah

Dutch: Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 2001

French: Paris, Gallimard, 2001; in paperback: Gallimard/Folio, 2003

English: London, Harvill, 2001; New York, Harvill/Farrar Straus, 2002, ISBN 978-1-86046-903-9

Italian: Milan, Rizzoli, 2001

Swedish: Stockholm, Wahlstrom/Widstrand, 2001

Portuguese: Lisbon, Asa, 2002

Finnish: Helsinki, Tammi, 2003

Greek: Athens, Psichogios, 2002

German: Munich, Carl Hanser, 2002; in paperback: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2004

Spanish: Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2004

Polish: Warsaw, WAB, 2006

Chinese: Hefei, Anhui Literature & Art Pubs, 2008

Turkish: Istanbul, Aclik Defter, forthcoming

• Lily La Tigresse

German: Munich, Carl Hanser, 2006; pback: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, forthcoming

French: Paris, Gallimard, 2006; in paperback: Folio, 2007

Portuguese: Porto, Asa, 2009

Italian: Milan, Ugo Guanda, 2007