ARIEL SABAR has won a literary award for his book, My Father's Paradise. Dave Rosenthal reports on the Baltimore Sun's Read Street Blog:

Ariel Sabar among NBCC award winners

Ariel SabarCongratulations to Ariel Sabar, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who has won the 2008 autobiography prize from the National Book Critics Circle for My Father's Paradise. Sabar wrote about his relationship with his father, who grew up in a mud hut in Kurdish Iraq, emigrated to Israel with thousands of other Jews and wound up as a professor of Aramaic at UCLA. ...

Background here and here.