The winners of the 2019 Southern Book Prize, honoring "the best in Southern literature," are:
Fiction: The Line That Held Us by David Joy (Putnam)
Children's: Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe by Jo Hackl (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Nonfiction and 2019 Conroy Legacy Winner: The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg (Knopf)
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Among the many categories of the 2019 London Book Fair International Excellence Awards, co-sponsored by the Publishers Association of the U.K., is Bookstore of the Year. The shortlist for that award, sponsored by Gardners, is:
BOA Bookstore, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Fang Suo Commune, Guangzhou, China
Unity Books, Wellington, New Zealand