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This Segal is flying high

This Segal is flying high

March 24, 2013 10:30

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1 min read

Rising author Francesca Segal has just won a National Jewish Book Award in the USA for her debut novel The Innocents, whose previous winners include Philip Roth and Saul Bellow.

She has also been shortlisted for the $100,000 Rohr Prize .

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