The shortlist has been selected for the 2025 Plutarch Award, sponsored by Biographers International Organization and the only international literary award for biography judged exclusively by biographers. The winner will be named June 6 during the BIO annual conference. The shortlist:
Cynthia Carr, for Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Stephanie Gorton, for The Icon & The Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America (Ecco)
David Greenberg, for John Lewis: A Life (Simon & Schuster)
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, for The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham (Harper)
Adam Shatz, for The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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The Writers' Union of Canada has released a shortlist for the C$10,000 (about US$7,255) Danuta Gleed Literary Award, which recognizes "the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian author published in 2024 in the English language." Two finalists are also awarded C$1,000 (about US$725) each. The winners will be named in early June. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Perfect Little Angels by Vincent Anioke
Coexistence by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Death by a Thousand Cuts by Shashi Bhat
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin
Smoke by Nicola Winstanley