2022 Kirkus Prize Winners

Trust shows the cardinal inequality of wealthiness by pursuing a affluent mates successful New York, starting successful the 1920s. The judges appreciated the “multiple perspectives and forms to propulsion the boundaries of what a caller tin do.”

This year’s fabrication judges were Deesha Philyaw, Luis Correa, Wendy Smith, and Laurie Muchnick.

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In In Sensorium, perfumer Tanaïs recounts their experiences — from a puerility spent successful antithetic regions of the U.S. to trips to their autochthonal Bangladesh — weaving South Asian perfume past throughout. Kirkus judges praised the book’s “daring, inventiveness, vision, and lyrical eloquence.”

This year’s nonfiction judges were Hanif Abdurraqib, Lillian Dabney, Sarah Norris, and Eric Liebetrau.

This young big graphic caller follows 3 young women who enactment astatine a stock location successful Japan, and their lives together. The book’s “remarkable mastery of graphic caller conventions and its perceptive exploration of emotionally resonant, evergreen themes relating to family, friendship, and identity” stood retired to the judges.

This year’s young readers’ lit judges were Jerry Craft, Junko Yokota, Alec B. Chunn, and Laura Simeon.