לאה איני
Born 1962 · Israel
Sapir 2024 · Shortlist
ha-Yeled shel Legyon ha-zarim
Title translated by AI:“The Child of the Foreign Legion”
Leah Aini · 61 when first published
Novel · 283 pages · Family, Migration
AI-generated summary:In a small Tel Aviv flat in the early 1960s, a father, a mother and their young son keep the door shut against creditors. They once had far more, until the family factory burned down, and the fire still smoulders in their lives.
Sapir 2014 · Shortlist
Bat ha-makom
Title translated by AI:“Daughter of the Place”
Leah Aini · 52 when first published
Short stories · 285 pages · Coming of age, Family
AI-generated summary:A short novel about an intellectually disabled Christian woman in Florida who cares for the elderly Jewish woman who took her in, paired with a novella about a Bat Yam girl at a private north Tel Aviv high school in 1976.
Sapir 2012 · Shortlist
Susit
Title translated by AI:“Filly”
Leah Aini · 50 when first published
Novel · 232 pages · Satire
AI-generated summary:Alexandra 'Sasha' Zeit, known as Susit, has spent seven years making her home in El Paso, Texas, when she inherits a farm, stable included, in Israel's coastal plain.
Sapir 2010 · Shortlist
Vered ha-Levanon
Title translated by AI:“Rose of Lebanon”
Leah Aini · 47 when first published
Novel · 543 pages · Coming of age, Autofiction, War
AI-generated summary:During the 1982 Lebanon war a young soldier from Bat Yam volunteers on a rehabilitation ward under a false name and tells a gravely wounded soldier the story of her childhood in a poor neighbourhood.