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A novel about identity and a missing youth, a history of overthrow Shah Of iran And a picture book celebrating the underappreciated navel is the winner of this year’s Kirkus Prize, which includes a $50,000 cash prize for each of the three categories.
Lucas Schaefer’s “The Slip”, based on his search for his nephew who disappeared years earlier, won the award for fiction, while the award for non-fiction went 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”, featuring a pool side scene of belly buttons and the stories they tell.
Established in 2014, the awards are overseen by trade publication Kirkus Reviews.
“This year’s Kirkus Award winners bring us important messages for our times – messages about the joys of community, the power of self-transformation, and the mutability of historical events – all expressed through invigorating prose and illustrations,” Tom Beer, Kirkus editor-in-chief, said in a statement Wednesday.
Finalists included Angela Flournoy’s novel “The Wilderness”; nicholas boggs biography james baldwin“Baldwin: A Love Story”; And Arundhati RoyMemoir of, “Mother Mary Comes to Me.”