The 2021 Hebrew Poetry Prize was awarded on Sunday to poet Shlomit Appel for her book Memories from the Swimsuit Factory.
The book was chosen out of some 170 submissions by committee head Prof. Ariel Herschfeld, a literary critic and lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, alongside other notable committee members with multiple accomplishments in the field.
The secondary prizes each came with NIS 10,000, while Appel took home NIS 50,000.
Speaking on behalf of her family, the president's daughter Anat Rivlin said that this was how her mother wanted to use her position in the President's Residence: "To support and encourage artists, men and women."
Anat told the winners: "I feel that the committee’s choice of you, each one of you, would have made my mother very proud. And she would certainly have loved your poems and quoted them."