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HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) — A novel about identity and a missing youth, a
history of the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and a picture book
celebrating the underappreciated belly button are this year's
winners of the Kirkus Prize, which includes a $50,000 cash award
for each of the three categories.
Lucas Schaefer's “The Slip,” which follows a man's search for a
nephew who disappeared years earlier, won for fiction, while 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 young readers’
literature was Thao Lam's “Everybelly,” a poolside view of belly
buttons and the stories they tell.
Established in 2014, the prizes are overseen by the trade
publication Kirkus Reviews.
“This year’s Kirkus Prize winners bring us vital messages for
our time — messages about the joys of community, the power of
self-transformation, and the mutability of historical events —
all conveyed through exhilarating prose and pictures," Kirkus
Editor-in-Chief Tom Beer said in a statement 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.”
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