Pamela Colloff won the 2026 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction for Catch the Devil, announced on 7 October 2026 at the Tribeca Rooftop in New York. The other finalists were Keeper of My Kin by Ada Ferrer, London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe, Defiance by Loubna Mrie, A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot, and A World Appears by Michael Pollan.
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The jurors praised Colloff's exposure of a criminal justice system that is all too happy to look the other way in cutting deals that can have devastating consequences.
Gisèle Pelicot and Judith Perrignon, translated by Natasha Lehrer and Ruth Diver
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