Daniella Carmi (; born on September 1, 1941) is an Israeli novelist who writes in Hebrew and French. She writes drama, screenplays and books for adults, children and youth. Her books were translated ion many languages.
She was born it Tel Aviv to a family of French speaking Polish-born Jewish parents, Ruth and Adam Kotov, who came to Israel in the 1930s. It her youth her mother was a communist. Her father was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair. Before coming to Israel the family lived in Belgium, France, and Algeria.
She earned degrees in philosophy and communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She began writing in 1978, which was a TV script on a suggestion from Ram Loevy, a dramatization of the novella "Khirbet Khize" (חרבת חיזעה) by S. Yizhar.
Most of her novels are tied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
She was married to Menachem Carmi (divorced) and they had two daughters and son.