Yaël Hassan [SEP] native language
Yaël Hassan
Yaël Hassan is a French-Israeli writer born in Paris in 1952.
She spent her childhood in Belgium, her adolescence in France, and her youth in Israel. She returned to France in 1984 with her family.
Making the most of the time of a very long immobilization, she writes her first novel, "A Grandfather Fallen from the Sky" (in French "Un grand-père tombé du ciel"), which won the Youth Novel Prize (Prix du Roman Jeunesse) in
Winners by Category Junior novels category.
- 1998 : Yaël Hassan, "Un Grand-père tombé du ciel", Casterman
- 1999 : J. K. Rowling, "Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers", Gallimard
- 2000 : , "L’Enfant Océan",
- 2001 : Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by , "Le Royaume de Kensuké", Gallimard Jeunesse
- 2002 : , "Le Mazal d'Elvina", , "Medium" coll.
- 2003 : , illustrated by Monike Czarnecki, "P’tite