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Award
The Kirkus Prize is an American literary award conferred by the book review magazine Kirkus Reviews US$ 150,000 annually. Three authors are awarded US$ 50,000 each, divided into three categories: Fiction , Nonfiction , and Young Readers' Literature .[ 1] most lucrative prizes in literature .[ 2] [ 3]
Eligibility and selection
Books reviewed by Kirkus Reviews that have received the Kirkus Star are automatically eligible for the Kirkus Prize and are selected for nomination. The eligibility dates of publication for books is typically between November 1 of the previous year and October 31 of the current year, with few exceptions. Self-published books that have earned the Kirkus Star are eligible for the Kirkus Prize. However, self-published books are not eligible based on their date of publication but rather the date of publication of their online review by Kirkus Reviews . All books must first be reviewed by Kirkus Reviews to be considered.[ 4]
The Prize is divided into three categories: the Kirkus Prize for Fiction , the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature . Each category is judged by a panel of three judges: a writer, a bookseller or librarian, and a Kirkus Reviews critic. The editors and staff of Kirkus Reviews evaluate each of the nominated books, conducting a first round of eliminations. The panels of judges then decide upon six finalists in each of the three categories. In the Young Readers' Literature category, the six finalists include two picture books , two middle-grade books and two teen books. The three winners are announced at a ceremony. The prize money for books with multiple authors and illustrators is divided fairly as decided by the Prize's judges and administrators.[ 4]
Winners and finalists
Fiction
Nonfiction
Year
Winners and finalists
Book
Ref(s).
2014
Roz Chast Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? [ 5]
Leo Damrosch Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Armand Marie Leroi The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science
Thomas Piketty Arthur Goldhammer (tr. )
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Bryan Stevenson Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
2015
Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me [ 6]
John Ferling Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It
Helen Macdonald H is for Hawk
Adam Tooze The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931
Simon Winchester Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
2016
Susan Faludi In the Darkroom [ 7]
Sarah Bakewell At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Michael Eric Dyson The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
Beth Macy Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
J. D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
2017
Jack E. Davis The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea [ 8]
Edward Dolnick The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come
Patricia Lockwood Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Valeria Luiselli tr. )
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Michael W. Twitty The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Laura Walls Henry David Thoreau: A Life
2018
Rebecca Solnit Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) [ 9]
Shane Bauer American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
Kiese Laymon Heavy: An American Memoir
Beth Macy Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
Sarah Smarsh Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Timothy Snyder The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
2019
Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir [ 10]
Hanif Abdurraqib Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
Naja Marie Aidt tr. )
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl's Book
Patrick Radden Keefe Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Dina Nayeri The Ungrateful Refugee
Rachel Louise Snyder No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
2020
Mychal Denzel Smith Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream [ 11]
Eric Jay Dolin A Furious Sky
Rebecca Giggs Fathoms: The World in the Whale
Deirde Mask The Address Book
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Fumi Nakamura (ill. )
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
2021
Brian Broome Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir [ 12]
Kristen Radtke Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Tiya Miles All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Dara Horn People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present
Juan Villoro tr. )
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico
Katherine E. Standefer Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life
2022
Tanaïs In Sensorium [ 15] [ 14]
Margaret A. Burnham By Hands Now Known
Lindsey Fitzharris The Facemaker
Nikole Hannah-Jones ed. )ed. )Jake Silverstein (ed. )
The 1619 Project
Ann Patchett These Precious Days
Ed Yong An Immense World
See also
References
^ Dwyer, Colin (September 30, 2014). "Book News: First-Ever Kirkus Prize Picks 18 Finalists" . NPR . Retrieved November 23, 2015 . ^ Dwyer, Colin (October 25, 2018). "Here Are The Winners Of The 2018 Kirkus Prizes" . NPR . Retrieved November 24, 2020 . ^ Schaub, Michael (September 25, 2018). "Literary awards season heats up with $50,000 Kirkus Prize finalists" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November 24, 2020 . ^ a b "Kirkus Prize" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved November 25, 2020 .^ a b c "2014 Kirkus Prize" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved November 26, 2020 .^ a b c "2015 Kirkus Prize" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved November 26, 2020 .^ a b c "2016 Kirkus Prize" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved November 26, 2020 .^ a b c "2017 Kirkus Prize" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved November 26, 2020 .^ a b c "2018 Kirkus Prize" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved November 26, 2020 .^ a b c "2019 Kirkus Prize" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved November 26, 2020 .^ a b c "2020 Kirkus Prize" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved November 26, 2020 .^ a b c "2021 Winners" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved October 29, 2021 .^ Michnick, Laurie (September 8, 2022). "Here Are the 2022 Kirkus Prize Fiction Finalists" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved September 10, 2022 . ^ a b c "Hernan Diaz, Tanaïs among winners of $50,000 Kirkus Prize" . AP News . October 28, 2022.^ "2022 Kirkus Prize: 2022 Finalists" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved October 28, 2022 .^ Dar, Mahnaz; Simeon, Laura (September 12, 2022). "The 2022 Kirkus Prize: Young Readers' Finalists" . Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved September 15, 2022 .
