Berkeley author Sara Houghteling is the winner of the 2010 Harold U. Ribalow prize for outstanding work of fiction on a Jewish theme. The prize will be presented by Hadassah Magazine on Jan. 31 in New York City.
Houghteling won the award for her novel “Pictures at an Exhibition,” the story of a French Jew who searches for the artwork owned by his father, an art dealer, and stolen by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
The work was selected by a panel of judges that included Elie Weisel, N. Scott Mornaday and Peter Manseau, winner of the 2009 Ribalow prize. Former winners of the prize have included Jonathan Safran Foer, Dara Horn and Aharon Appelfeld.