Kirkus Prize 2022 winners announced

The winners of the 2022 Kirkus Prize, worth US$50,000 (A$78,000) in each category, have been announced.

Hernan Diaz won the fiction category for his novel Trust (Picador), which follows a wealthy New York couple in the early 20th century whose lives might not be quite what they seem; Tanaïs won the nonfiction category for In Sensorium: Notes for My People (Harper), a memoir that offers a critical, alternate history of South Asia from an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme perspective; and Harmony Becker won the young readers’ category for Himawari House (First Second), a YA graphic novel about three foreign exchange students who befriend one another while living in Japan.

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Michelle de Kretser was one of six finalists for the fiction prize for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U).

For more information about the winning titles, click here.

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