Announcing the 2022 BookLife Prize Winner for Fiction!

It was a difficult decision, but the judges ultimately selected Boys in Exile by Richard Duggin as the grand prize winner for this year's BookLife Prize Fiction Contest. "This book stayed with me for weeks after I read it," said author Lyn Liao Butler, who selected it as a finalist. "It really brought me into the world of pre-teen boys back in 1955...and that climax had me hanging on to every word. My jaw dropped and my heart was in my stomach." Duggin's win was also announced in The Washington Post Book Club newsletter. Stay tuned for a profile piece on Duggin to run in the December 19 issue of BookLife. Congratulations to Richard Duggin!