Salvatore Scibona wins Young Lions Fiction Award

Cover art for Salvatore Scibona's "The End" (Graywolf Press 2008)

(Enthusiastic hoot)!

At a ceremony emceed by Ethan Hawke this past Monday March 16, Salvatore Scibona (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’06) was announced as the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. The award features a $10,000 prize and puts Salvatore in the company of such past winners as Jonathan Safran Foer, Monique Truong, and Colson Whitehead.

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