NYPL Announces 2022 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists

The New York Public Library has announced the finalists for the 22nd annual Young Lions Fiction Award. The Award honors an American fiction writer age 35 or younger with a $10,000 prize. This year's judges are Venita Blackburn, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, and last year's winner, Catherine Lacey.  The winner will be announced during an award ceremony on June 16 in the Bartos Forum of the Stephen A. Schwarzman building. The finalists are: 

  • Mateo Askaripour for Black Buck (Mariner)
  • Alexandra Kleeman for Something New Under the Sun (Hogarth)
  • Tom Lin for The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Little, Brown)
  • Dantiel W. Moniz for Milk Blood Heat (Grove)
  • Kalani Pickhart for I Will Die in a Foreign Land (Two Dollar Radio)
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