Mark Sarvas (born September 26, 1964) is an American

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, critic, and

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ger living in

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. He is the host of the literary blog The Elegant Variation and author of the novel ''Harry, Revised'' (Bloomsbury, Spring 2008). ''Harry, Revised'' was a finalist for the Fiction Prize of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association, and was also a 2008 Denver Post Good Reads selection. Sarvas is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN/America and a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His second novel, ''Memento Park,'' was acquired for publication by

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in May 2014, for March 2018 publication.

Awards

*2005: ''

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'' Top 10 Litblog *2005: ''

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'' Best of the Web *2008: Southern California Independent Booksellers Association: First Fiction Prize finalist *2018: Santa Monica Arts Fellowship *2019: AJL Fiction Award *2019: ''

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'' *2019: Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize *2019: Shortlisted, JQ Wingate Literary Prize.

External links

Official website

Literary Criticism

of Joshua Cohen's Book of Numbers
Publishers Weekly review of Memento Park
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