Yehudit Kafri |
| Yehudit Kafri was born in 1936 at Kibbutz Ein Hahoresh which her parents helped found, and has been a member of both Kibbutz Sasa in Galilee, and Kibbutz Shoval in the Negev. She studied at universities in Israel and the U.S. A poet and fiction writer, Kafri worked for many years as an editor and translator at Sifriat Poalim Publishing House, and now writes literary reviews for Iton 77. Kafri has received a number of literary awards, among which the Tel Aviv Foundation Award (1973), the Prime Minister`s Prize (1987), the Rachel Prize (1993), the ACUM Prize (2003) and the President`s Prize (2005).
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Books Published in Hebrew |
| Zosha (biographical novel), Keter, 2003 [Zosha]
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| Poetry |
| Time Will Have Mercy, Makhbarot Lesifrut, 1962 [Ha-Zeman Yirahem] |
| The Spur of This Moment, Sifriat Poalim, 1966 [Heref Ha-Rega Ha-Ze] |
| From Here and From Another Country, Sifriat Poalim, 1970 [Mi-Kan U-Mi-Eretz Aheret] |
| Small Variations, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1975 [Variatziot Ketanot] |
| Woman with Parasol, Ekked, 1977 [Isha Ahat Im Shimshiah] |
| Koranit, Sifriat Poalim, 1982 [Koranit] |
| Awn of Summer, Sifriat Poalim, 1988 [Mal`an Shel Kayitz] |
| Man Woman Bird, Iaron Golan, 1993 [Ish Ishah Tzipor] |
| Zosha, Sifrei Iton 77, 2006 [Zosha]
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| Children |
| It Was During Vacation, Sifriat Poalim, 1964 [Ze Haya Ba-Hofesh] |
| Our Champion Tom, Sifriat Poalim, 1982, 1987 [Ha-Aluf Shelanu Tom] |
| Memoirs |
| All Summer We Walked Barefoot , Shdemot-Tag, 1996 [Kol Ha- Kayitz Halachnu Yehefim] |
| Non-fiction |
| To Love a Blue Whale, Sifriat Poalim, 1982; 1996 [Le`ehov Leviatan Kahol] |
| Biographies |
| Mula Agin, Kibbutz Shoval, 1969 [Mola Agin]
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Books in Translation |
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Individual poems have been translated into Arabic, English, French, Spanish, German, Croatian and Russian. Manuscripts available (for publishers only) in English translation Zosha Last updated: 3.1.2010 |
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