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    Here are the Finalists for the 2022 Young Lions Fiction Award.

    Jessie Gaynor
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    April 14, 2022, 1:34pm

    The New York Public Library has announced the finalists for its twenty-second annual Young Lions Fiction Award, which is given each year to an American writer age 35 or younger for either a novel or a collection of short stories.

    The finalists are selected by a committee of writers, editors, and librarians, and a panel of judges will choose the winner, who will receive a $10,000 prize. This year’s judges are Venita Blackburn, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and Catherine Lacey.

    The winner will be announced at an award ceremony on June 16.

    Congratulations to all the finalists!

    Black Buck

    Mateo Askaripour , Black Buck
    Mariner Books

    Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun

    Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun
    Hogarth Press

    The Thousand Crimes Of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

    Tom Lin, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
    Little, Brown

    Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
    Dantiel W. Moniz, Milk Blood Heat
    Grove Press

    I Will Die in a Foreign Land

    Kalani Pickhart, I Will Die in a Foreign Land
    Two Dollar Radio

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