​2019 PAGE INTERNATIONAL ​
​SCREENWRITING AWARD

Saving America by Michael Lederer 
With the United States warming fast and splitting apart at the seams, a would-be hero takes it upon himself to save America. He enlists the help of a young stranger, convinced this will definitely be a two-man job.​

​​Michael Lederer writes with the intensity of an ancient soul sitting around the campfire spinning ardent tale after tale to warm the winter night. A real treat!”
— John Guare, Tony award-winning playwright

Michael Lederer is a true archeologist, among the great American writers."
— ​Die Welt

Literary ferocity!"
— Magazine InKultura

In the stories of Michael Lederer there is a beautiful sense of loss, as if the author deliberately and thoroughly erected a fine building, and then a ruthless movement destroyed it in front of you. These ruins are fascinating.”
— Vladimir Sorokin, leading Russian postmodernist novelist and dramatist