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Salvatore Scibona

Salvatore Scibona

How to pronounce Salvatore Scibona: SAL-vator-re ski-bone-a

Salvatore Scibona Biography

Salvatore Scibona (born 2 June 1975) is an award-winning American novelist and short-story writer. His first book, The End, was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Whiting Writers' Award. He also bagged the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library, and the Norman Mailer Cape Cod Award for Exceptional Writing for the same.

His work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best New American Voices, and the New York Times. In June 2010 he was named one of the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers worth watching.

A graduate of St. John's College in Santa Fe and of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.

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