Eleonora Lev

Eleonora Lev was born in Poland. Her father was the sole survivor of a large family that perished in the Holocaust. Her maternal grandfather was executed by firing squad during the Stalinist purges, and her entire family was exiled to Siberia. Lev immigrated to Israel as a small child.
Lev writes essays and literary criticism and is a translator. She is also literary editor of Words and Images - The Jerusalem Literary Project, a series of videotaped interviews with contemporary Jewish writers, conducted by the National Library in Jerusalem. Lev received the Bernstein Prize (1996) for her novel, First Morning in Paradise, and the Keshet Gold Book Prize.

Books Published in Hebrew

A Certain Kind of Orphanhood (autobiographical novel), Am Oved, 1989; N.B. Books, 1999 [Sug Mesuyam Shel Yatmut]

First Morning in Paradise (novel), Keshet, 1996 [Boker Rishon Be-Gan Eden]

Death is a Negative Thing (novella), Keter, 2000 [Mavet Ze Davar Negativi]

Books in Translation

First Morning in Paradise
Dutch: Amsterdam, Arena, 1999
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 1999; in paperback: Munich, Bertelsmann, 2001
French: Paris, Seuil, 2003
Chinese: Nanjing, Yilin, forthcoming

A Certain Kind of Orphanhood
German: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 1999; in paperback: Munich, btb, 2000

Manuscripts available (for publishers only) in English translation
First Morning in Paradise

Last updated: 4.1.2010