Nira Harel

Award-Winning Children's Book Author

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.