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03/05/2005
Greer wins emerging author award
Andrew Sean Greer has won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award for his historical novel, The confessions of Max Tivoli. The award is given annually to an emerging author.
Paul LeClerc, Library President, called the book "a truly original novel that offers fresh perspective on questions of love and age through an elegant balance of parody and profundity."
Greer will receive $10,000 for his book which tells the story of a boy born with the body of an old man.
The finalists were The Dog Fighter by Marc Bojanowski's, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum's Madeleine Is Sleeping, Stephen Elliott's Happy Baby and Aaron Gwyn's Dog on the Cross."
The awards were established in 2001. Previous winners include Jonathan Safran Foer's "Everything Is Illuminated" and Colson Whitehead's "John Henry Days."
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