{"id":6546,"date":"2013-04-16T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=6546"},"modified":"2013-04-16T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T21:12:37","slug":"novelist-francesca-segal-wins-sami-rohr-prize-with-the-innocents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/novelist-francesca-segal-wins-sami-rohr-prize-with-the-innocents\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelist Francesca Segal wins Sami Rohr Prize with &#8216;The Innocents&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Novelist Francesca Segal won the 2013 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish literature for her debut novel, &#8220;The Innocents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Segal will receive the Jewish Book Council&#8217;s first prize award of $100,000. The novel is set in modern-day London, in a community living in the shadow of the Holocaust and the demands of tradition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Segal&#8217;s attention to details of Jewish traditions will deeply resonate with Jews of all communities,&#8221; the judges said.<\/p>\n<p>The award ceremony will be held in New York on May 30.<\/p>\n<p>The runner-up was Ben Lerner for his novel &#8220;Leaving the Atocha Station.&#8221; He will receive a $25,000 prize.<\/p>\n<p>Other finalists were Shani Boianju for \u201cThe People of Forever Are Not Afraid&#8221;; Stuart Nadler for \u201cThe Book of Life&#8221;; and Asaf Schurr for \u201cMotti.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Rohr prize has been given annually since 2007 and considers works of fiction and non-fiction in alternating years. It honors the contribution of contemporary writers in exploring and transmitting Jewish values.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Novelist%20Francesca%20Segal%20wins%20Sami%20Rohr%20Prize%20with%20%27The%20Innocents%27\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2514,2513,8790,2515,8795,8788,442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6546\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}