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

• 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

• 2009: Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works
• 2011, 2015: ACUM award
• 2014: Devorah Omer Prize for A Treasury of Hebrew Legends for Children
• 2017, 2021: Lea Goldberg Prize for My Aunt Lea Goldberg
• 2018: Bialik Prize

Personal

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