In June of 2006 the City of Zaragoza honored Noah Gordon with a special award, a Zaragoza Prize given "for his body of work in the field of the historical novel."
More than 12,000 books were nominated. Der Medicus (The Physician) was number seven in all-time popularity, ranked between Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (number six) and Paul Cuelho's The Alchemist (number eight).
The Last Jew was awarded the Boccaccio Literary Prize, presented in Certaldo, Italy.
The Last Jew was chosen as runner-up for the Boston Authors Club annual Book of Literary Merit Award.
The Last Jew was listed as #10 among the top international sellers in the year 2000 by Marketing Partners in their newsletter, Publishing Trends.
In Spain, The Last Jew won the Que Leer Prize for the "Best Book of the Year by a Foreign Author." The prize, awarded by Que Leer, a leading Spanish review of books, was presented at ceremonies held at the Madrid Book Fair.
At the Madrid Book Fair, The Physician was voted one of the "Ten Most Loved Books of All Time" by the booksellers of Spain.
The prize is given annually by the Basque booksellers of Spain and France.
The Society of the American Historians presented its first James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Literary Distinction in the Writing of Historical Fiction to Noah Gordon. They said, “His novel Shaman exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.”
Noah Gordon was voted Germany's "Author of the Year" by the readers of the Bertelsmann Book Club. Later that year, in Munich, he received the Golden Pen Award that went with the honor.
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In June of 2006 the City of Zaragoza honored Noah Gordon with a special award, a Zaragoza Prize given "for his body of work in the field of the historical novel."
More than 12,000 books were nominated. Der Medicus (The Physician) was number seven in all-time popularity, ranked between Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (number six) and Paul Cuelho's The Alchemist (number eight).
The Last Jew was awarded the Boccaccio Literary Prize, presented in Certaldo, Italy.
The Last Jew was chosen as runner-up for the Boston Authors Club annual Book of Literary Merit Award.
The Last Jew was listed as #10 among the top international sellers in the year 2000 by Marketing Partners in their newsletter, Publishing Trends.
In Spain, The Last Jew won the Que Leer Prize for the "Best Book of the Year by a Foreign Author." The prize, awarded by Que Leer, a leading Spanish review of books, was presented at ceremonies held at the Madrid Book Fair.
At the Madrid Book Fair, The Physician was voted one of the "Ten Most Loved Books of All Time" by the booksellers of Spain.
The prize is given annually by the Basque booksellers of Spain and France.
The Society of the American Historians presented its first James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Literary Distinction in the Writing of Historical Fiction to Noah Gordon. They said, “His novel Shaman exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.”
Noah Gordon was voted Germany's "Author of the Year" by the readers of the Bertelsmann Book Club. Later that year, in Munich, he received the Golden Pen Award that went with the honor.
