Member Awards and Achievements 2016 Kirkus Prize Finalists Announced September 20, 2016 Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab) on Facebook (opens in a new tab) on Linkedin (opens in a new tab) via email The 2016 Kirkus Prize finalists have been announced. Annie Proulx’s Barkskins is a finalist in the category of Fiction, Sherman Alexie’s Thunderboy, illustrated by Yuyi Morales, and Russell Freedman’s We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler are finalists in the Young People’s Literature category.