![]() ![]() "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" was optioned by producer Anthony Bregman ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), according to a December, 2008 announcement in Publishers Marketplace. The presentation of the Rohr Prize took place in Jerusalem in April 2008. The prize, which is administered by the New York-based Jewish Book Council, comes with a $100,000 stipend and is the richest cash award in the Jewish literary world. The book, published by Ecco, was awarded the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. ![]() Lagnado wrote a prize-winning memoir about her childhood, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. ![]() 205 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, and was a graduate of Vassar College. Lagnado was born to a Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt. She was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Lucette Matalon Lagnado (Septem– July 10, 2019) was an Egyptian-born American journalist and memoirist. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |