The Los Angeles Times has announced the finalists for the 45th annual Book Prizes. In addition, Pico Iyer will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement; Amanda Gorman will be honored with the Innovator’s Award; and Emily Witt will be presented with the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose. The winners will be announced in a ceremony on Friday, April 25th at USC’s Bovard Auditorium on the eve of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which will take place the weekend of April 26-27.
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