{"id":110733,"date":"2025-10-09T08:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110733\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:37:11","slug":"kirkus-prize-winners-include-a-novel-on-identity-a-history-of-iran-and-an-ode-to-belly-buttons-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110733\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkus Prize winners include a novel on identity, a history of Iran and an ode to belly buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A novel about identity and a missing youth, a history of the overthrow of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/343d87fdb960424e9ec0f4a90dc64fcb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Shah of Iran<\/a> and a picture book celebrating the underappreciated belly button are this year&#8217;s winners of the Kirkus Prize, which includes a $50,000 cash award for each of the three categories.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Schaefer&#8217;s \u201cThe Slip,\u201d which follows a man&#8217;s search for a nephew who disappeared years earlier, won for fiction, while the award for nonfiction was given to Scott Anderson&#8217;s \u201cKing of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation.\u201d The winner for young readers\u2019 literature was Thao Lam&#8217;s \u201cEverybelly,\u201d a poolside view of belly buttons and the stories they tell.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2014, the prizes are overseen by the trade publication Kirkus Reviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s Kirkus Prize winners bring us vital messages for our time \u2014 messages about the joys of community, the power of self-transformation, and the mutability of historical events \u2014 all conveyed through exhilarating prose and pictures,&#8221; Kirkus Editor-in-Chief Tom Beer said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Finalists included Angela Flournoy&#8217;s novel \u201cThe Wilderness\u201d; Nicholas Boggs&#8217; biography of James Baldwin, \u201cBaldwin: A Love Story\u201d; and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arundhati-roy-memoir-mother-god-small-things-97714692c8b60d23d4ae727ac1493d88\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arundhati Roy&#8217;s<\/a> memoir, \u201cMother Mary Comes to Me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A novel about identity and a missing youth, a history of the overthrow of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[68663,23912,68661,68662,7558,359,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-110733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-ap-online-top-entertainment-headlines","9":"tag-ap-top-news","10":"tag-ap-top-news-l-twc-regions","11":"tag-ap-top-news-entertainment","12":"tag-associated-press","13":"tag-books","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}