Yossi Abolafia

Yossi Abolafia, writer and illustrator of children`s books as well as cartoonist, was born in Tiberias in 1944. He has worked as a director, scriptwriter, and animator for Israel TV, Canadian TV, the Canadian Film Service, and independently in New York. He created a satirical comic strip for the daily newspaper, Maariv, and has been head of the Animation Unit at the Bezalel Academy of Art, where he is a senior lecturer. Abolafia has written ten books for children (three of them co-authored with Ephraim Sidon) and illustrated some 140 books in Israel and the US. He has been awarded the Andersen Citation for Illustration twice, the Ben-Zvi Prize twice, and the Nahum Gutman Prize for Illustration (1993).

Books Represented by ITHL

Baldy Heights (children), Yossi Abolafia & Ephraim Sidon, Am Oved, 1980 [Maale Karachot]

A Fishy Tale (children), Keter, 1998 [Dag Le-Gveret Shaltiel]

Books in Translation

A Fish for Mrs. Gardenia
English: New York, Greenwillow Books, 1988

Last updated: 1.11.2009