Chaim Grade, of New York, today was awarded the Kessel prize for Yiddish literature for 1961, for his novel “The Grass Widow;” He will receive the full prize, amounting to $400.
Half-prizes, amounting to $200 each, were awarded to I. Rappaport of Australia; Benjamin Slavin, of Paris; SHIomo Shenhood, of Israel; and Abraham Lev, of Israel.
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