Awards: Windham-Campbell, B&N Discover Winners; Stella Shortlist

Winners were announced for the Windham-Campbell Prizes, which is administered by Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library "to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns." Each of the eight winners receives $165,000 and will be honored September 12-14 during an international literary festival at Yale. This year's Windham-Campbell Prize recipients are:

Fiction: John Keene (U.S.) and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda/U.K.)
Nonfiction: Sarah Bakewell (U.K.) and Olivia Laing (U.K.)
Poetry: Lorna Goodison (Jamaica) and Cathy Park Hong (U.S.)
Drama: Lucas Hnath (U.S.) and Suzan-Lori Parks (U.S.)

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The winners of Barnes & Noble's 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, each of whom receives a cash prize of $30,000 and a year of marketing and merchandising support from B&N, are:

Fiction: Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell (McSweeney's), which the bookseller described as "a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide."

Nonfiction: Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder (Norton), "a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers."

Second-place winners, each of whom receives $15,000:

Fiction: The End We Start From by Megan Hunter (Grove/Atlantic), "a poetic parable of new motherhood."

Nonfiction: Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory and Murder by Leah Carroll (Grand Central), "an unforgettable memoir that turns to gritty 1980s Providence, Rhode Island, to tell her tragic--and uplifting--family story."

Third place winners, each of whom receives $7,500:

Fiction: The Leavers by Lisa Ko (Algonquin Books), "a powerful story of parents and children and how the bond between them are tested."

Nonfiction: The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael Twitty (Amistad Books), "a remarkable culinary history that is also part memoir and part detective story."

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The shortlist for the 2018 Stella Prize, which honors Australian women's writing, is:

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar (Wild Dingo Press)
Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman (Hachette Australia)
The Life to Come by Michelle de Kretser (Allen & Unwin)
An Uncertain Grace by Krissy Kneen (Text Publishing)
The Fish Girl by Mirandi Riwoe (Seizure)
Tracker by Alexis Wright (Giramondo)

The winner will be announced on April 12.

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