NEW YORK (AP) — A novel about identification and a lacking youth, a historical past of the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and an image guide celebrating the underappreciated stomach button are this 12 months’s winners of the Kirkus Prize, which features a $50,000 money award for every of the three classes.
Lucas Schaefer’s “The Slip,” which follows a person’s seek for a nephew who disappeared years earlier, gained for fiction, whereas the award for nonfiction was given to Scott Anderson’s “King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation.” The winner for younger readers’ literature was Thao Lam’s “Everybelly,” a poolside view of stomach buttons and the tales they inform.
Established in 2014, the prizes are overseen by the commerce publication Kirkus Critiques.
“This 12 months’s Kirkus Prize winners deliver us very important messages for our time — messages concerning the joys of neighborhood, the facility of self-transformation, and the mutability of historic occasions — all conveyed by exhilarating prose and photos,” Kirkus Editor-in-Chief Tom Beer mentioned in an announcement Wednesday.
Finalists included Angela Flournoy’s novel “The Wilderness”; Nicholas Boggs’ biography of James Baldwin, “Baldwin: A Love Story”; and Arundhati Roy’s memoir, “Mother Mary Comes to Me.”
