Roz Chast Wins One Of Three First Annual Kirkus Prizes



It was announced late last week that cartoonist Roz Chast has won one of the three prizes given out by the Kirkus Review as part of a new program. The Kirkus Prize comes with $50,000 in a cash award. Chast's Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? won the non-fiction award. The other winners were works by Lily King (fiction) and Kate Samworth (young readers). The announcement were made in advance of last weekend's Texas Book Festival.

Chast's memoir is now easily in place to serve as one of the handful of works seen as comics' book of the year, and is also strong candidate for that honor in more traditional prose publishing circles.

As always, CR endorses all awards that come with giant, cash prizes.
 
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