Adula (Sabina Messeg)

Adula (Sabina Messeg) was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1942, and came to Israel with her family in 1948. She grew up in Jaffa, then studied Hebrew and English literature at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She now lives and works in a small village in the Galilee.

Messeg is an eco-poet, translator and critic. She has published books of poetry, books for children - as Adula - and translates English, Norwegian and French literature into Hebrew – Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Henrik Ibsen, Olav H. Hauge and Rolf Jacobsen, among others. 

Messeg has received the Newman Prize (1982), the Lamdan Prize (1983), the Lea Goldberg Prize twice (1992; 2016), the Zeev Prize (1994), the Hadassah Prize (2003) and the Prime minister's Prize (2015).