De Kretser shortlisted for Kirkus Prize
Monday, 12 September 2022 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
Michelle de Kretser is a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, worth US$50,000 (A$73,100), for her novel Scary Monsters (A&U).
De Kretser’s book is one of six finalists in the fiction category, alongside Trust (Hernan Diaz, Picador), God’s Children Are Little Broken Things (Arinze Ifeakandu, W&N), Mecca (Susan Straight, FSG), Scattered All Over the Earth (Yoko Tawada, trans by Margaret Mitsutani, New Directions) and The Books of Jacob (Olga Tokarczuk, trans by Jennifer Croft, Text).
The Kirkus Prize is awarded annually to titles in fiction, nonfiction and young readers categories. The winners will be announced on 27 October.
For more information about the awards, click here.
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