Salvatore Scibona

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Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) }} Salvatore Scibona (born 1975) is an American novelist. He has won awards for both his novels and 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 Letter for his novel ''[https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2021-literature-award-winners/ The Volunteer.]'' In its [https://artsandletters.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2021-Ceremonial-Program3.pdf 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." Provided by Wikipedia