Project Description
Tehila HAKIMI תהילה חכימי (poet, fiction writer; Israel) writes poetry, fiction and graphic novels. Her poetry volume מחר נעבוד [We’ll Work Tomorrow] (2014) received the 2015 Bernstein Prize for Literature, and, alongside her graphic novel במים [In the Water] and Her collection of novellas, חֶבְרָה [Company] (2018), with Resling Publishing House, won the Yehoshua Rabinowitz Foundation Prize for Literature.
Hakimi received the 2014 Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for Emerging Poets, and the 2018 Fulbright International Writing Program Fellowship in The University of Iowa.
She is a mechanical engineer and works for an engineering company in Israel.