Levana Moshon ( he, לבנה מושון, also he, לבנה מושון-קוזק, Levana Moshon-Kozak) (born October 28, 1952, Tel Aviv) is a writer, journalist, teacher and children's storyteller. She is an author of over 40 books of prose for children and young adults, and several novels for adults.Levana Moshon לבנה מושון (1952)
''Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature'', Ohio State University"WRITER’S CURRICULUM VITAE, Levana Moshon"
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Awards and nominations

*2022: Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works (for 2021)משרד התרבות והספורט הכריז על הזוכים בפרסי היצירה לסופרים עבריים ע"ש לוי אשכול לשנת 2021
(The Ministry of Culture and Sports announced the winners of the Levy Eshkol Hebrew Writers' Prize for 2021) *2015: nominated for the Sapir Prize (for 2014) for the adult novel ''Silence of the Plants'' ("שתיקת הצמחים") *2009: ACUM Prize for the manuscript, presented

anonymously Anonymity describes situations where the acting person's identity is unknown. Some writers have argued that namelessness, though technically correct, does not capture what is more centrally at stake in contexts of anonymity. The important idea he ...

, "האם אתה כואב אותי" ("You are Hurting Me" also translated as "Feel my Pains") *2005: ACUM Prize for children's and youth literature for the 2004 novel "לאבא שלי קוראים ארווין" ("My Father is Called Erwin"), which was republished in 2008 as מכתבים מגבעת הזבל (''Letters from the Garbage Heap'') מכתבים מגבעת הזבל, לבנה מושון , מכתב חוזר
(a review of ''Letters from the Garbage Heap''), ''

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'', December 17, 2008 *1995: Tchernichovsky Prize in Poetry and Prose category, for the book ''Sour Love'' (published in 1996)פרסים
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Personal

She is married and mother of three and is a resident of

Giv'at Shmuel Giv'at Shmuel ( he, גִּבְעַת שְׁמוּאֵל, , Samuel's Hill) is a city in the Center District of Israel. It is located in the eastern part of the Gush Dan Metropolitan Area and bordered by Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak to the West, Kiryat ...

References

1952 births Living people 20th-century Israeli women writers 20th-century Israeli writers Israeli women children's writers {{israel-writer-stub