NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Angela Flournoy,Kiran Desai and Megha Majumdar and a memoir by Arundhati Roy are among the many finalists for the twelfth annual Kirkus Prize, which comes with a $50,000 money award for winners in fiction, nonfiction and younger readers’ literature.
Kirkus, the long-running commerce publication, introduced six nominees in every of the three classes Wednesday.
Desai’s “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” by which an Related Press reporter is a featured character, can be on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. Flournoy’s “The Wilderness” is her first novel since she debuted with “The Turner House” a decade in the past, and Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” is her first guide since her celebrated debut, “A Burning,” was printed in 2020.
Allegra Goodman’s “Isola,” Lucas Schafer’s “The Slip” and David Szalay’s “Flesh” are the opposite finalists.
Roy’s “Mother Mary Comes to Me” is a nonfiction nominee, together with Nicholas Boggs’ biography of James Baldwin, “Baldwin: A Love Story;” Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues;” Scott Anderson’s “King of Kings;” Sophie Elmhurst’s “A Marriage at Sea;” and Greg Gandin’s “America, America.”
The younger readers’ finalists are Brian Floca’s “Island Storm,” Thao Lam’s “Everybelly,” Derrick Barnes’ “The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze,” Triinu Laan’s “John the Skeleton,” Moa Backe Astot’s “Butterfly Heart” and Candace Fleming’s “Death in the Jungle.”
Winners shall be introduced Oct. 8. Earlier recipients embody Percival Everett, Susan Faludi and Colson Whitehead.
