Shoham Smith

Shoham Smith, 2017

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

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?
  • 1996: Things that My Heart Fails to Tell

Adult books

Awards

Personal

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

References