The Jewish Book Council has revealed the winners of the 59th Annual National Jewish Book Awards. Joseph Kertes was awarded the JJ Greenberg Memorial Award for Fiction for his novel, Gratitude. The Poetry Award went to Alicia Suskin Ostriker for The Book of Seventy. Author Kim Ablon Whitney was awarded the Children's and Young Adult Literature Award for her book, The Other Half of Life: A Novel Based on the True Story of the MS St. Louis.
For the full list of winners, click here.
Interesting that Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle was awarded the Sydney Taylor Book Award for Teen Readers earlier this week. Similar topic as "The Other Half of Life," but Engle writes in free verse. Sydney Taylor Winners and Honor Books can be found here http://forwordsbooks.com/and-the-winners-are.../
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