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Friday, September 22, 2017

2017 Kirkus Prize Finalists

On September 10, I posted about the longlist of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction:  https://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2017/09/2017-kirkus-prize-longlist.html.  That list of 423 titles has been narrowed down to six:

What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Her Bodies and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

For further information about the books, go to https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2017/finalists/fiction/. 

In the Young People’s Literature category, three Canadians are on the shortlist.  Métis author Cherie Dimaline, who is from Ontario's Georgian Bay Métis community, is nominated for her novel The Marrow Thieves, which takes place in a dystopian future where Indigenous people are hunted and harvested for their bone marrow.  The other Canadians include Guatemalan-born author and translator Elisa Amado for her work on the Jairo Buitrago-authored children's book Walk With Me, and Hull, Que.-based translator Madeleine Stratford for her work on picture book Me Tall, You Small by German author Lilli L'Arronge.  See the complete list at https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2017/finalists/young-readers/.

The finalists for non-fiction have also been announced:  https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2017/finalists/nonfiction/. 

The winners, who will receive $50,000 US ($60,795 Cdn), will be announced on Nov. 2, 2017. 

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