Miriam Akavia | | Miriam Akavia (1927-2015) was born in Cracow, Poland. During World War II, she was interned in the Cracow Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. She arrived in pre-state Israel in 1946. Akavia, who was a registered nurse, also studied literature and history at Tel Aviv University. She worked in the Jewish Agency, served as Israel's cultural attache in Stockholm and Budapest, and was a translator of Polish and Hebrew literature.
Akavia began publishing in 1975, describing her childhood as well as her Holocaust and post-war experiences. She published fiction, books for children and youth, and non-fiction.
She received the Yad Vashem Prize (1978), the Sec Prize (1985), the Korczak Prize (Germany, 1988) and the Prime Minister's Prize (1993). | |
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Books Published in Hebrew
| An End to Childhood
(youth)
, Tamuz, 1975; Yad Vashem, 1998; 2000 [Neurim Be-Shalechet] | The Price (stories), Sifriat Poalim, 1977; 1988 [Ha-Mehir] | Galia and Miklosh: Severance of Relations (youth), Sifriat Poalim, 1982 [Galia Ve-Miklosh: Nituk Yechasim] | My Own Vineyard
(novel)
, Dvir, 1984; rev. ed. 1996 [Karmi Sheli] | Bus Adventure (children), Dvir, 1986 [Harpatkah Be-Otobus] | The Other Way: The Story of a Group (novel), Yedioth Aharonoth, 1992 [Ha-Derech Ha-Aheret: Sipur Ha-Kvutza] | Build a House with Love (children), Kibbutz Dalia, 2001 [Bayit Bonim Be-Ahava] | My Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust (autobiography), Gvanim, 2006 [Hayai U-Sfarai Be-Tzel Ha-Shoah] | In the Land of Korczak (stories & memoirs), Carmel, 2006 [Be-Artzo Shel Janusz Korczak] | |
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Books in Translation
Dutch: Bussum, Strengholt’s Boeken, 1980
English: Essex, Vallentine Mitchell, 1995; rev.ed. 2003
Swedish: Stockholm, Prisma, 1981
German: Guetersloh, Guetersloher, 1983
Polish: Cracow, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1989; Expanded ed: Auschwitz, Panstwowego Muzeum Oswiecim, 1996
Hungarian: Budapest, Belvarosi Konyvkiado,1999
Russian: Jerusalem/Moscow, Gesharim/Mosti Kulturi, 2006 French: Montricher, Noir Sur Blanc, 1991
Polish: Warsaw, Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1990; Crakow, C&D Pubs., 2000
English: London/Portland, Vallentine Mitchel, 2006
Short Stories
German: Guetersloh, Guetersloher, 1985
Polish: Wroclaw, Wydawnictwo Dolnoslaskie, 1992; Poznan, Zysk & Ska, 2000; Cracow, PIW, 2005
Galia and Milkosh: Severance of Relations
Russian: Jerusalem, Aliya, 1991
Polish: Poznan, CIA svaro, 1992; Cracow, Stabill, 2000
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