Essence magazine held its first literary awards honoring African-American authors last week. The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson won for best fiction.
The Sami Rohr prize for Jewish literature was awarded to Lucette Matalon Lagnado for The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. The Sami Rohr prize is awarded each year, alternating fiction and non-fiction, to an emerging writer whose work, of exceptional literary merit, stimulates and interest in themes of Jewish concern. The winner recieves a $100,000 prize.
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