The winner of the 2020 Montana Book Award is Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Writer by Gretchen E. Minton (University of New Mexico Press).
Three honor books were also chosen:
The Blaze by Chad Dundas (Putnam)
Life List by Marc Beaudin (Riverfeet Press)
Regarding Willingness by Tom Harpole (Riverfeet Press)
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The longlist has been unveiled for the £25,000 (about $32,375) Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. A shortlist will be announced at the end of April, and the winner named in mid-June. Because of the postponement of the Borders Book Festival this year, the winner will be announced online and through media. This year's longlisted titles are:
Hinton by Mark Blacklock
The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte
The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd
A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
Mr. Beethoven by Paul Griffiths
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A Treacherous Country by K.M. Kruimink
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
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The shortlists for the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize, honoring "the best in American nonfiction writing" and sponsored by Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, have been announced. Winners will be announced on March 24.
J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards shortlist:
The Movement Made Us by David Dennis Jr. (HarperCollins)
Addiction, Inc by Emily Dufton (University of Chicago Press)
House of Swann by Channing Gerard Joseph (Crown)
Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks (Knopf)
The Mother of All Things by Elizabeth Rush (Milkweed Editions)
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize shortlist:
We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper (Grand Central)
Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (Little, Brown)
Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman (Penguin Press)
After the Last Border by Jessica Goudeau (Viking)
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Mark Lynton History Prize shortlist:
The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson (Basic Books)
Vanguard by Martha S. Jones (Basic Books)
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright)
Those Who Forget by Géraldine Schwarz (Scribner)
A Question of Freedom by William G. Thomas III (Yale University Press)