The winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award have been announced in New York City. The award is voted on by critics and considers all books in English (including in translation), no matter the country of origin. The winners in the various categories and some supplementary links:
Fiction: Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (excerpt)
Nonfiction: Maya Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (excerpt)
Autobiography: Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace: A Memoir (“The Writer at the Memory Table“)
Criticism: Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (“Putting It Together,” “The Millions Interview: Geoff Dyer on the London Riots, the Great War, and the Gray Lady“)
Biography: John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (excerpt)
Poetry: Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
Previously: The finalists
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at 7:58 am on March 9, 2012
[...] The 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced. My streak is intact! None of the books that I nominated won. Again. [...]
at 12:00 pm on March 9, 2012
Is it in the NBCCA’s rules and regulations that they have to give the award to a fiction writer who lives within a six mile radius of the awards ceremony?
at 1:11 pm on March 9, 2012
Edith Pearlman lives in Brookline, Mass! http://www.pw.org/content/edith_pearlman_1
at 4:22 pm on March 13, 2012
Kal Kim is upset because she didn’t win!
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