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'''Hagar Yanai''' ({{lang-he|הגר ינאי}}; born 1972) is an [[Israel]]iIsraeli author. andShe is the recipient of the 2008 Prime Minister's Award for Israeli Authors.,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3641994,00.html |script-title=he:הוכרזו הזוכים בפרסי היצירה לתשס"ט |trans-title=The winners of the 2008 Prime Minister Award have been announced |work=[[Ynet]] |date=21 December 2008 |language=Hebrew |accessdate=21 August 2014}}</ref> And a recipientand of the 2019 Devora Omer Award for Work of LiteraturLiterature Targetingfor Middle Grade and Young Adults.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.gov.il/he/Departments/news/2019prize_noa_sorek |script-title=he:רשימת הזוכים בפרס שרת התרבות והספורט בתחומי היצירה הספרותית לשנת תשע"ט |trans-title=The winners of the 2019 Minister of Culture and Sports Award after Devora Omer have been announced |work=gov.il |date=29 December 2019 |language=Hebrew |accessdate=28 March 2021}}</ref>. She is also a three-time recipient of the [[Geffen Award]] for Best Original Hebrew Fantasy.<ref>{{cite news |author=Avner Shapira |url=http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.articles_item,1045,209,28863,.aspx |script-title=he:הגר ינאי זכתה בפרס גפן לספרי פנטסיה |trans-title=Hagar Yanai won the Geffen Award for Fantasy books |publisher=Akbar Hahyir |date=22 October 2008 |language=Hebrew |accessdate=21 August 2014}}</ref>

Hagar Yanai was born in [[Kibbutz]] [[Barkai]]. Following her army service, she studied [[Anthroposophy]] for two years at Kibbutz [[Harduf]] and then traveled to [[Japan]] where she studied for a year with a [[Zen master]] in [[Tokyo]], and worked as a hostess in night clubs. She spent some time in a [[Zen]] [[monastery]] in Kyosho. Her first book, ''A Woman in Light'', was inspired by her affair with the head of the monastery.<ref>{{cite news |author=Gon Ben Ari |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3519624,00.html |title=Hocus Pocus |language=he |work=[[Ynet]] |date=16 March 2008 |accessdate=21 August 2014}}</ref> Yanai received her [[Bachelorbachelor's degree]] in [[creative writing]] and [[screenwriting]] from Camera Obscura School of Art, and her [[Mastermaster's degree]] in [[literature]] from [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]].

Yanai worked as a [[journalist]] for ''Hayim Aherim'' (A Different Life) magazine, and the weekend supplement of Hebrew daily ''[[Haaretz]]''. She was also a book critic for the Hebrew daily ''[[Globes (newspaper)|Globes]]'', and the [[Literary criticism|literary]] and [[Film criticism|film critic]] for Israeli Television [[Channel 2 (Israel)|Channel Two]]. Today, she works as a literary editor, teaches creative writing, and is a book critic for the [[Army Radio|IDF radio station]] and Israel Television [[Channel 1 (Israel)|Channel One]].<ref>[http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00848 Hagar Yanai – From the New Hebrew Literature Lexicon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090909091321/http://library.osu.edu/sites/users/galron.1/00848 |date=2009-09-09 }} (Hebrew) <!-- redirects to http://library.osu.edu/projects/hebrew-lexicon/00848/ 404--></ref>

* ''The universe beyond the horizon - conversations with Professor [[Haim Eshed]]'', Jerusalem, Yedioth Books, 11/2020<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ybook.co.il/book/7837/%D7%94%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%A8-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A7---%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A2%D7%9D-%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%93|title = היקום מעבר לאופק - שיחות עם פרופסור חיים אשד - הגר ינאי &#124; ידיעות ספרים שאוהבים}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gefenpublishing.com/product.asp?productid=2935|title = The Universe Beyond the Horizon (Hebrew)-Gefen Publishing House}}</ref>

* {{cite news |url=http://bidur.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=376581&TypeID=1&sid=123 |script-title=he:"הלוויתן מבבל" נושא את אג'נדת אהבת המלנכוליה בעולם פנטסטי מענג |language=he |trans-title=The Leviathan of Babylon conveys the agenda of the love of melancholy in a pleasurable world of fantasy |author=Lilach Wallach |publisher=Nana 10 |date=31 May 2006 |access-date=5 July 2009 |archive-date=12 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812105148/http://bidur.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=376581&TypeID=1&sid=123 |url-status=dead }}

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