Five Finalist Named for $10,000 Young Lions Fiction Award

Today the New York Public Library revealed the finalists for the ninth annual Young Lions Fiction Award. The nominees are: Jon Fasman for The Unpossessed City, Rivka Galchen for Atmospheric Disturbances, Sana Krasikov for One More Year, Zachary Mason for The Lost Books of the Odyssey, and Salvatore Scibona for The End.

Above is an exclusive video from the GalleyCat archives, talking with Scibona at the National Book Awards about how the stock market crash will affect writers.

Here’s more from the release: “The award is given annually to an American writer age 35 or younger for either a novel or collection of short stories. Each year five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members, writers, editors, and librarians. A panel of award judges, including novelist Lore Segal, and last year’s winner Ron Currie, Jr. (who won for God Is Dead), will select the winner of the $10,000 prize.”

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