Mark Sarvas

American novelist

Novelist
reviewer
blogger

Mark Sarvas (born September 26, 1964) is an American novelist, critic, and blogger living in Los Angeles. 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 Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May 2014, for March 2018 publication.

Awards

2005: The Guardian Top 10 Litblog
2005: Los Angeles magazine Top LA Blog
2006: Forbes Best of the Web
2008: Southern California Independent Booksellers Association: First Fiction Prize finalist
2018: Santa Monica Arts Fellowship
2019: AJL Fiction Award
2019: American Book Award for Memento Park
2019: Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize
2019: Shortlisted, JQ Wingate Literary Prize.