The Los Angeles Time Book Prize announced finalists across a number of categories and winners of its special prizes, with a ceremony to take place on April 25. The Robert Kirsch Award will go to Pico Iyer for Aflame. Emily Witt‘s Health and Safety wins the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose. The Innovator’s Award goes to Amanda Gorman. Finalists from select categories are listed below with the full roster here.
The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Jiaming Tang, Cinema Love
Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots
Joseph Earl Thomas, God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
Jessica Elisheva Emerson, Olive Days
Julian Zabalbeascoa, What We Tried to Bury Grows Here
Biography
Laura Beers, Orwell’s Ghosts
Cynthia Carr, Candy Darling
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Survival Is a Promise
Pamela D. Toler, The Dragon From Chicago
Jessica Goudeau, We Were Illegal
Current Interest
Jonathan Blitzer, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
Jesse Katz, The Rent Collectors
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
Wright Thompson, The Barn
Fiction
Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot
Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend
Percival Everett, James
Yuri Herrera translated by Lisa Dillman, Season of the Swamp
Miranda July, All Fours
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