Salvatore Scibona Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

April 14, 2010--Graywolf Press is pleased to announce that National Book Award finalist Salvatore Scibona, author The End, has been named a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow. Edward Hirsch, the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, announced today that in its eighty-sixth annual competition for the United States and Canada the Foundation has awarded 180 Fellowships to artists, scientists, and scholars. The successful candidates were chosen from a group of some 3,000 applicants.

Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of achievement and exceptional promise. One of the hallmarks of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is the diversity of its Fellows.

The full list of 2010 Fellows may be viewed at http://www.gf.org.