Alona Kimhi has published novels, short stories and a book for children. Kimhi has been awarded the ACUM Book of the Year Prize, the Bernstein Prize, the French WIZO Prize, and the Prime Minister’s Prize. In 2004, a film based on a script of hers received the Israel Academy’s Best TV Film Award. Her books have been published in 14 languages. Kimhi’s book, Lily la Tigresse is to be published by Dalkey Archive in 2014.
Alona Kimhi
Articles by Alona Kimhi
Tuesday April 15
Lily La Tigresse: A Melodrama
Sometimes I see less significant people too—girlfriends, high school teachers, men I once went to bed with. A few days ago, for example, I clearly saw Bruria Zimmel, who studied with me in the department of dental hygiene in the faculty of dental medicine at Tel Aviv University. She was so lonely, this Bruria, that on the night Rabin was assassinated nobody phoned her to tell her the news, and she only found out the next day. When I saw her gawky back on the corner of Bugrachov Street I even shouted, “Bruria! Bruria Zimmel!” and a strange woman turned round to face me, probably no less lonely than Bruria Zimmel herself…