What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
White Tears by Hari Kunzru
Her Bodies and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
For further
information about the books, go to https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2017/finalists/fiction/.
In the
Young People’s Literature category, three Canadians are on the shortlist. Métis author Cherie Dimaline, who is from
Ontario's Georgian Bay Métis community, is nominated for her novel The Marrow Thieves, which takes place in
a dystopian future where Indigenous people are hunted and harvested for their
bone marrow. The other Canadians include
Guatemalan-born author and translator Elisa Amado for her work on the Jairo
Buitrago-authored children's book Walk
With Me, and Hull, Que.-based translator Madeleine Stratford for her work
on picture book Me Tall, You Small by
German author Lilli L'Arronge. See the
complete list at https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2017/finalists/young-readers/.
The
finalists for non-fiction have also been announced: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2017/finalists/nonfiction/.
The winners,
who will receive $50,000 US ($60,795 Cdn), will be announced on Nov. 2,
2017.
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