The winners and finalists of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and honoring the best in American nonfiction writing, are:
The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize:
Winner: Shane Bauer for American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Penguin Press)
Finalist: Lauren Hilgers for Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown (Crown)
The Mark Lynton History Prize:
Winners: Andrew Delbanco for The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War (Penguin Press)
Jeffrey C. Stewart for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press)
Finalist: David W. Blight for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster)
The J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award:
Winners:
Maurice Chammah for Let the Lord Sort Them: Texas and the Death Penalty's Rise and Fall in America (Crown)
Steven Dudley for Mara: The Making of the MS13 (Hanover Square Press)
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The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals released shortlists for the Carnegie Medal (author of a book for children & young people) and Kate Greenaway Medal (illustrator). Winners will each receive £500 (about $665) worth of books to donate to their local library, a specially commissioned golden medal and a £5,000 (about $6,640) Colin Mears Award cash prize. They will be named June 18. This year's shortlisted titles are:
CILIP Carnegie
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Rebound by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson, illustrated by Elisa Paganelli
Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Chris Priestley
The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders
CILIP Kate Greenaway
The Day War Came, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb, written by Nicola Davies
Ocean Meets Sky, illustrated and written by Eric Fan & Terry Fan
Beyond the Fence, illustrated and written by Maria Gulemetova
The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse, illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett
Julian is a Mermaid, illustrated and written by Jessica Love
You're Safe with Me, illustrated by Poonam Mistry, written by Chitra Soundar
The Lost Words, illustrated by Jackie Morris, written by Robert Macfarlane
Suffragette: The Battle for Equality, illustrated and written by David Roberts
The Shadowers' Choice Award, voted for and awarded by the children and young people who shadow the medals, will be announced alongside the two medal winners. This new award evolved out of CILIP's recent Diversity Review, which identified opportunities to empower and celebrate the young people involved in the Medals through the shadowing scheme by giving them a more significant voice and visible presence in the process and prize giving.
Amnesty International U.K. continues to support the medals, providing educational resources and training to raise awareness and understanding of the power of children's books to explore human rights, encourage empathy and broaden horizons. Amnesty has produced materials for all the shortlisted books for discussion in classrooms and libraries.