NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Angela Flournoy,Kiran Desai and Megha Majumdar and a memoir by Arundhati Roy are among the finalists for the 12th annual Kirkus Prize, which comes with a $50,000 cash award for winners in fiction, nonfiction and young readers' literature.

Kirkus, the long-running trade publication, announced six nominees in each of the three categories Wednesday.

Desai's “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” in which an Associated Press reporter is a featured character, is also on the shortlist for the Booker Prize. Flournoy's “The Wilderness" is her first novel since she debuted with “The Turner House” a decade ago, and Majumdar's “A Guardian and a Thief” is her first book since her celebrated debut, “A Burning,” was published in 2020.

Allegra Goodman's “Isola,” Lucas Schafer's

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