Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Awards: 5 Under 35, PEN/Bingham, and The First Kirkus Prize Finalists

Publishers Lunch


On Tuesday morning, the National Book Foundation's ninth annual list honoring 5 Under 35 was announced. This time around, all of the honorees except one -- Quade -- has already published in book form. (Her story collection is set for publication by Norton in 2015.)

Alex Gilvarry, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
Yelena Akhtiorskaya, Panic in a Suitcase
Phil Klay, Redeployment
Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas: Stories

On Monday night, Shawn Vestal won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for debut fiction for Godforsaken Idaho, a collection of stories. It was published by Amazon Publishing's Little A imprint, and is available in trade paperback from HMH's New Harvest.

The Kirkus Prize announced its inaugural slate of nominees in fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. The winners will receive $50,000 each and will be announced at an awards ceremony in Austin, TX on October 23:

Fiction
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (Simon & Schuster)
Euphoria by Lily King (Atlantic Monthly Press)
All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu (Knopf)
Florence Gordon by Brian Morton (Houghton Mifflin)
The Remedy for Love by Bill Roorbach (Algonquin Books)
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters (Riverhead)

Nonfiction
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast (Bloomsbury)
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch (Yale University Press)
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Holt)
The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science by Armand Marie Leroi (Viking)
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (Harvard University Press)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (Spiegel & Grau)

Young Readers' Literature
Picture Books
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet (Eerdmans)
Aviary Wonders Inc.: Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual by Kate Samworth (Clarion)

Middle Grade
El Deafo by Cece Bell (Amulet/Abrams)
The Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Young Adult
The Story of Owen, Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E.K. Johnston (Carolrhoda Lab)
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell (Scholastic)

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