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Associate Professor of Creative Writing Daniel Torday Wins National Jewish Book Award

Posted January 13th, 2016 at 2:57 pm

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Associate Professor of Creative Writing Daniel Torday has been named the winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award for fiction for his debut novel The Last Flight of Poxl West.

Published in March of 2015, The Last Flight of Poxl West received a glowing review in The New York Times, and made the cover of the Times’  Sunday Book Review. The book was also named one of 2015's best debut books by Amazon.com.

Torday is the director of Bryn Mawr's Creative Writing Program. His novella, The Sensualist, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction. His stories and essays have appeared in Esquire, Glimmer Train, n+1, The New York Times, and The Paris Review Daily. A former editor at Esquire, Torday serves as an editor at The Kenyon Review.

As the longest-running North American awards program in the field of Jewish literature, the National Jewish Book Awards are designed to recognize outstanding books of Jewish interest. The honor is awarded in 18-20 individual categories. A complete list of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award winners and finalists follows and additional information is available at www.jewishbookcouncil.org.

The winners of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards will be honored on March 9 at a gala awards celebration to be held at the Center for Jewish History in New York City.

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