Alona Kimhi (Hebrew: אלונה קמחי; born 1963) is an Israeli award-winning author and former actress.
Following her army service, in a Kibbutz in the Negev Desert, she moved to Tel-Aviv and studied acting at the Beit Zvi Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she graduated with honours and began her career as a Film and Theatre actress.
Her first collection of short stories won the 1994 anonymous ACUM literary contest and the resulting book I Anastasia was published a year later to critical acclaim and became a national bestseller, winning the Israeli Copyright Society prestigious Book of the Year Award.
Alona Kimhi lives in Tel Aviv with her spouse Izhar Ashdot and their son Ilai, writing novels, plays and screenplays for Film and TV.
English: London/New York, Toby Press, 2000 German: in paperback: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2005 French: Paris, Gallimard, 2008 Dutch: Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 2001 French: Paris, Gallimard, 2001; in paperback: Gallimard/Folio, 2003 English: London, Harvill, 2001; New York, Harvill/Farrar Straus, 2002, ISBN 978-1-86046-903-9 Italian: Milan, Rizzoli, 2001 Swedish: Stockholm, Wahlstrom/Widstrand, 2001 Portuguese: Lisbon, Asa, 2002 Finnish: Helsinki, Tammi, 2003 Greek: Athens, Psichogios, 2002 German: Munich, Carl Hanser, 2002; in paperback: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, 2004 Spanish: Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2004 Polish: Warsaw, WAB, 2006 Chinese: Hefei, Anhui Literature & Art Pubs, 2008 Turkish: Istanbul, Aclik Defter, 2011 Czech: Prague, Garamond Press, 2014 English: USA, Dalkey Archive Press, 2014 German: Munich, Carl Hanser, 2006; pback: Berlin, Berlin Verlag, forthcoming French: Paris, Gallimard, 2006; in paperback: Folio, 2007 Portuguese: Porto, Asa, 2009 Italian: Milan, Ugo Guanda, 2007 French: Paris, Gallimard, 2012 English: Translator Yael Lotan, Toby Press, 2001