Orit Gidali is an Israeli poet and picture-book writer. She co-founded 'Sadnaot Habait' - the largest and most prominent school for creative writing in Israel. She was awarded the Dvora Omer Award in 2022, and the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship in 2023. The English collection of her poems, translated and edited by Marcela Sulak, was longlisted for the Pen America Literary Award in 2017.

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Poetry books:

The Towers, edited by Dr. Yaara Shehori, Poetry Place Publishing House, 2021

Deathbed, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2015

Closing In, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2009.

Twenty Girls to Envy Me, edited by Prof. Ori Bernstein, Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2003.

 

Twenty Girls to Envy Me, Hebrew-English Bilingual Edition of collected poems, Translated and introduced by Dr Marcela Sulak, Texas University press 2016.

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Picture books:

Kind of a Unicorn, illustrated by Omer Hoffman, edited by Yael Gover, Kinneret Zmora Dvir Publishing House, 2019. 

People Touched the Moon, Illustrated by Tami Bezaleli, edited by Yael Gover, Kinneret Zmora Dvir Publishing House, 2018

Nora and the Magic Eraser, illustrated by Aya Gordon-Noy, edited by Yael Gover, Kinneret Zmora Dvir Publishing House, 2015

Nora the Mind Reader, illustrated by Aya Gordon-Noy, edited by Yael Gover, Kinneret Zmora Dvir Publishing House, 2011.

Ready-Ready , illustrated by Omer Hoffman, edited by Yael Gover, Kinneret Zmora Dvir Publishing House, 2023. 

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Gidali's picture books have been translated into 11 languages, including English, Spanish, and Chinese.