Former BJ reporter and author Thrity Umrigar
will be the keynote speaker for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
awards June 24. Because of COVID it will be a virtual ceremony at the American
Library Association’s virtual conference.
The fiction winner is James McBride, for Deacon King Kong, set in a Brooklyn neighborhood
dealing with drug gangs,
and nonfiction winner is Rebecca Giggs for Fathoms:
The World in the Whale, a save the whales exploration.
Carnegie
Medal winners will each receive $5,000.
The American Library Association made the selections. The awards
began in 2012.
The other 2021
fiction finalists included A Burning (Alfred A. Knopf) by Megha
Majumdar, and Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown
and Company) by Ayad Akhtar.
Nonfiction finalists
also included Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf
Press) by Claudia Rankine, and Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir (Ecco)
by Natasha Trethewey.
The non-fiction winner in
2020 was Adam Higginbotham for “Midnight in Chernobyl.” The fiction winner last
year was Valerie Luiselli for “Lost Children Archive.”
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