“The Sobol Award offers the enormous prize for the best unreleased novel by an unrepresented author, with prizes of $25,000 and $10,000 for the runners-up and $1,000 each to seven others. The award — available only to authors in the United States — is the creation of Sobol Literary Enterprises, a for-profit venture started by technology entrepreneur Gur Shomron as a venue to discover talented, unknown fiction writers and help them get the recognition they deserve.”