306:. The winners of the award were announced in March 2022. The winner of the illustration prize was Sharon Spitz and the winner of the writing prize was Carol Isaacs. The award was repeated in 2023 and the winner of the text award was Dina Leifer, and the winner of the illustration award was Mel Zohar. A third competition was launched in April 2023. and the winners were announced in March 2024: the story winner prize was won by Berliner Julie Form, and the illustration prize was won by Ukrainian-born Julia Krasovitsky. Both winners live in Germany. A fourth competition was launched by Green Bean Books and the Jewish Literary Foundation in April 2024.
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In 1984, Leventhal started a new publishing imprint, Greenhill Books. Contractually precluded from publishing any new books for a period, he started with three series of reprints of classic aviation, crime and science fiction titles. In 1985, Greenhill launched the
Napoleonic Library series of
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classic military reprints and soon abandoned fiction publishing to concentrate on military history. As with Arms & Armour Press, the imprint grew, eventually reaching a total of almost 700 titles published and attracting a renowned group of authors, including
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Bingley, the STM publishing house of Charles Griffin, which specialised in publishing books on statistics. Griffin was sold 18 months later to
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