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Премия Киркус - национальная награда за лучшее произведение, учрежденная к 80-летнему юбилею создания американского журнала "Киркус. Отзывы" (Kirkus Reviews).

В 1932 году американка Вирджиния Киркус (1893-1980) основала собственную службу книжного обозрения. Служба получала гранки книг, готовящихся к публикации, и рецензировала их. С начала существования службы поступало около 20 гранок, почти 80 лет спустя служба уже получала сотни книг в неделю и рецензировала около 100.
В 1933 году Вирджинией Киркус был основан журнал "Киркус. Отзывы". Дважды в месяц он публикует информацию о готовящихся к публикациям книгах, способствуя этим развитию издательской индустрии и повышению читательского интереса. За год публикуется примерно о 7 000 произведениях.

Премия Киркуса была учреждена журналом "Киркус. Отзывы" в 2014 году и является одной из самых богатых литературных премий в мире. Каждый лауреат получает $ 50 000.

Премия вручается в трех номинациях:
- художественная книга (Kirkus Prize for Fiction)
- документальная книга (Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction)
- книга для детей и юношества (Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature).

Штаб-квартира журнала находится в Нью-Йорке.

Жанры: Зарубежная литература, Зарубежная публицистика, Современная зарубежная литература, Публицистическая литература, Документальная литература Страны: США Язык: Английский Первое вручение: 2014 г. Последнее вручение: 2025 г. Официальный сайт: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/

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Художественная книга
Kirkus Prize for Fiction
Документальная книга
Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
Книга для детей и юношества
Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature
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Художественная книга
James
Percival Everett 4.0
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin…), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Brimming with electrifying humor and lacerating observations, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.
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Документальная книга
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Адам Хиггинботам 0.0
On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people on board. Millions of Americans witnessed the tragic deaths of a crew including New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Like 9/11 or JFK’s assassination, the Challenger disaster is a defining moment in 20th-century history—yet the details of what took place that day, and why, have largely been forgotten. Until now.

Based on extensive archival records and meticulous, original reporting, Challenger follows a handful of central protagonists—including each of the seven members of the doomed crew—through the years leading up to the accident, a detailed account of the tragedy itself, and into the investigation that followed. It’s a tale of optimism and promise undermined by political cynicism and cost-cutting in the interests of burnishing national prestige; of hubris and heroism; and of an investigation driven by leakers and whistleblowers determined to bring the truth to light. Throughout, there are the ominous warning signs of a tragedy to come, recognized but then ignored, and ultimately kept from the public.

Higginbotham reveals the history of the shuttle program, the lives of men and women whose stories have been overshadowed by the disaster as well as the designers, engineers, and test pilots who struggled against the odds to get the first shuttle into space.
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Книга для детей и юношества
Gather
Kenneth M. Cadow 0.0
A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recovers from addiction in this striking debut novel.

Ian Gray isn’t supposed to have a dog, but a lot of things that shouldn’t happen end up happening anyway. And Gather, Ian’s adopted pup, is good company now that Ian has to quit the basketball team, find a job, and take care of his mom as she tries to overcome her opioid addiction. Despite the obstacles thrown their way, Ian is determined to keep his family afloat no matter what it takes. And for a little while, things are looking Ian makes friends, and his fondness for the outdoors and for fixing things lands him work helping neighbors. But an unforeseen tragedy results in Ian and his dog taking off on the run, trying to evade a future that would mean leaving their house and their land. Even if the community comes together to help him, would Ian and Gather have a home to return to?

Told in a wry, cautious first-person voice that meanders like a dog circling to be sure it’s safe to lie down, Kenneth M. Cadow’s resonant debut brings an emotional and ultimately hopeful story of one teen’s resilience in the face of unthinkable hardships.
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