Anne Enright’s The Green Road and Adam Johnson’s Fortune Smiles are among the finalists for the LA Times Fiction award. Chigozie Obioma’s best selling The Fishermen and Sara Novic’s Girl at War are short-listed for the Art Seidenbaum Award for first fiction and Richard Prices’s The Whites is one of the five finalists in the Mystery/Thriller category. Full fiction lists inside:
FICTION
Anne Enright, The Green Road (W.W. Norton & Co.)
James Hannaham, Delicious Foods (Little, Brown & Co.)
Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles (Random House)
Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth, translated by Christina MacSweeney, (Coffee House Press)
Helen Phillips, Beautiful Bureaucrat (Henry Holt and Co.)
THE ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION
Sarah Gerard, Binary Star (Two Dollar Radio)
Ben Metcalf, Against the Country (Random House)
Sara Novic, Girl at War (Random House)
Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen (Little, Brown and Company)
Andrew Roe, The Miracle Girl (Algonquin Books)
MYSTERY / THRILLER
Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone (William Morrow)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer (Grove Press)
Brian Panowich, Bull Mountain (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Richard Price, The Whites (Picador)
Don Winslow, The Cartel (Alfred A. Knopf)
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