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Paul Howarth of Norwich, England, won the 2018 Discover Award in Fiction for his novel, Only Killers and Thieves (Harper). He received $30,000. Tommy Orange of Angels Camp, California, won the $15,000 second-place prize for his novel, There There (Knopf), and Fatima Farheen Mirza of New York City won the $7,500 third-place prize for her novel, A Place for Us (SJP for Hogarth). Paulette Jiles, Helen Simonson, and Jess Walter judged. Kiese Laymon of Oxford, Mississippi, won the $30,000 Discover Award in Nonfiction for his memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner). Shane Bauer of Oakland won the $15,000 second-place prize for his nonfiction book, American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment (Penguin Press), and Tara Westover of New York City won the $7,500 third-place prize for her memoir, Educated (Random House). Mira Jacob, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, and Beth Macy judged. The annual awards are given for works of fiction and nonfiction published in the previous year and featured in Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set. Barnes & Noble, Discover Awards, 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. (212) 633-4067. Miwa Messer, Director. mmesser@bn.com

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