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Sándor Bródy Prize

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ94784 ↗
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The Sándor Bródy Prize is a Hungarian literary award founded in 1995 by Alexander Brody, a Hungarian American,

in honor of his grandfather, the Hungarian writer Sándor Bródy. It is given annually, for the best first novel of the year. It carries a monetary award, and financial assistance to the publication of the second novel of the author.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sándor Bródy Prize” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.