The winners of the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, are:
Unfollow Me by Jill Louise Busby (Bloomsbury)
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
Time Is a Flower by Julie Morstad (Tundra Books)
Funeral for Flaca by Emilly Prado (Future Tense Books)
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen)
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A shortlist has been released for the £2,500 (about $3,380) Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, presented by Slightly Foxed and the Biographers' Club, the Bookseller reported. The winner will be announced March 8 in London. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi
Will She Do? Act One of a Life on Stage by Eileen Atkins
Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women by Annabel Abbs
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts by Ian Collins
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi