Raches Eshed

Rachel Eshed was born on Kibbutz Degania Aleph in 1951, the daughter of holocaust survivors. She has studied theater and fine arts in Israel and London. In 1995, Havtachot Ktanot (Little Promises) was published by Kibbutz Hameuchad; the manuscript received the 1992 AKUM Prize. Her third book, Shkufa Bachalon (Transparent in the Window), received the 2001 Bernstein Prize for Original Hebrew Poetry.