Announcing the 2025 Kirkus Prize Winners: Celebrating Literary Excellence with $50,000 Awards

Oct 09, 2025 04:49 pm CST

The prestigious 2025 Kirkus Prize has honored three exceptional works across fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature categories. Lucas Schaefer's identity-focused novel "The Slip," Scott Anderson's Iranian Revolution analysis "King of Kings," and Thao Lam's delightful "Everybelly" each secured $50,000 awards for their literary excellence and timely messages about community, transformation, and historical understanding.