Six Jewish authors, poets and journalists have been named the winners of the 1979 Fernando Jeno Literary Awards in recognition of their writings in Yiddish, Hebrew and Spanish. They are the poet Moshe Shulstein of Paris, and Yitzhak Luden of Tel Aviv, in the category of Yiddish, writing; Naomi Wishnitzer and Bentzion Epstein, both them Israel, writing in Hebrew; and Ariel Roffe, for his biography of Menachem Begin, and Armando Norosky, both of Buenos Aires, writing in Spanish.
The awards, which carry a cash prize of $500, will be presented to the recipients at a literary event on March 25. They are sponsored by the Fernando Jeno Fund which is administered by the Central Jewish Committee of Mexico.
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