Austin Ratner Wins 2011 Sami Rohr
Posted on March 29, 2011
Austin Ratner has been named the winner of the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize by the Jewish Book Counil. Ratner won the award and the $100,000 cash prize for his debut novel, The Jump Artist. Joseph Skibell, author of A Curable Romantic (Algonquin Books), is the 2011 runner-up and recipient of the $25,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Choice Award.
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature was established in 2006. The website for the Jewish Book Council can be found here.
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