Salvatore Scibona | |
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Born | 1975 (age 48–49) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | American |
Education | St. John's College Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) |
Salvatore Scibona (born 1975) is an American novelist. He has won awards for his novels as well as short stories, and was selected in 2010 as one of The New Yorker 's "20 under 40: Fiction Writers to Watch". His work has been published in ten languages. In 2021 he was awarded the $200,000 Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel The Volunteer. [1] In its citation the academy wrote, "Salvatore Scibona's work is grand, tragic, epic. His novel The Volunteer, about war, masculinity, abandonment, and grimly executed grace, is an intricate masterpiece of plot, scene, and troubled character. In language both meticulous and extravagant, Scibona brings to the American novel a mythic fury, a fresh greatness." [2]
Salvatore Scibona was born in 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio.[ citation needed ]
He graduated from St. John's College in 1997 and published an essay about his experience there in The New Yorker . [3] Scibona earned an M.F.A. in 1999 at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. The following year he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, using it to travel to Italy for research for his first novel, published as The End (2008), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award.
Scibona has written novels, essays, and short stories, the last published in The Threepenny Review , Best New American Voices 2004, The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize, Harper's Magazine , and The New Yorker.
His work has been recognized by major awards including the Whiting Writers Award and the Guggenheim Fellowship. He was named one of the "20 under 40" writers by The New Yorker in 2010. [4]
From 2004 through 2013 he administered the writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. From 2013 to 2016, he taught at Wesleyan University. Since 2017, he has directed the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Year | Work | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
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2008 | The End | National Book Award | Fiction | Shortlisted | [5] |
2009 | Massachusetts Book Award | Must-Read (Longlist) | Longlisted | ||
Ohioana Book Award | Fiction | Shortlisted | |||
Young Lions Fiction Award | — | Shortlisted | [6] | ||
— | Whiting Award | Fiction | Won | [7] | |
2020 | The Volunteer | Ohioana Book Award | Fiction | Won | [8] |
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