Born in Tel Aviv, Nira Harel is an author and editor of children’s books. In the 1960s she edited Pilon, a popular magazine for children, and later worked for the publishers Masada and Am Oved. She has earned the Zeev Award, the Fania Bergstein Prize, Germany’s Eselohr Award, and, in 1994, an Andersen Honor Citation.
“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That’s all we know for sure. We can’t create a new species or a new world. That’s been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries. What are…
My name is Benillouche, Alexandre Mordekhai.
How galling the smiles of my classmates! In our alley, and at the Alliance School, I hadn’t known how ridiculous, how revealing, my name could be…