The winner of the Jewish Book Council’s $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize, announced today, is Sana Krasikov, right, for her short story collection “One More Year” (Spiegel & Grau, 2008). The Book Council also announced that its $25,000 Sami Rohr Prize Choice Award would go to Dalia Sofer, the author of the novel “The Septembers of Shiraz” (Ecco, 2007).
These awards will be handed out at a May gala in New York City. For more on Krasikov, Sofer and their fellow Rohr Prize finalists, see the Bintel Blog’s coverage of the literary prize here.
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