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Here Are The Winners Of The 2018 Kirkus Prizes

The 2018 Kirkus Prize winners (from left to right): Severance, by Ling Ma; Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James; Call Them by Their True Names, by Rebecca Solnit. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Agate Bolden; Haymarket Books hide caption

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Agate Bolden; Haymarket Books

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Here Are The Winners Of The 2018 Kirkus Prizes

Ling Ma's debut, Severance, won for fiction. Crown earned Derrick Barnes and Gordon James the young readers' prize. And Rebecca Solnit's essays, Call Them by Their True Names, won nonfiction laurels.

Jason Reynolds, C.E. Morgan And Susan Faludi Win 2016 Kirkus Prize
Macmillan Publishers (2); Simon & Schuster

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Jason Reynolds, C.E. Morgan And Susan Faludi Win 2016 Kirkus Prize

Reynolds' As Brave as You won in the literary award's category for young readers' literature; Morgan's The Sport of Kings won for fiction; and Faludi's In the Darkroom won for nonfiction.

Bookseller John Evans Recommends 'The Sport Of Kings'

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