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HILLEL ITALIE
NEW
YORK (AP) — Tayari Jones' “Kin,” a novel tracing the life and
times of two Black friends from small-town Louisiana, has won
the Kirkus Prize for fiction.
Paula Colloff's “Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder,
Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast" won for nonfiction,
and Elizabeth Acevedo's “Anger Is Only a Shadow” was awarded for
young readers' literature.
Each of the three authors receives a $50,000 cash prize.
Colson Whitehead's “Cool Machine,” Douglas Stuart's “John of
John” and Patrick Radden Keefe's “London Falling” were among the
finalists.
The Kirkus awards, presented by the industry publication Kirkus
Reviews, were established in 2014. Previous winners include
Whitehead, Joy Williams and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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