National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book Critics Circle Award | |
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Description | "the finest books and reviews published in English" |
Date | March, annual |
Country | United States |
Presented by | National Book Critics Circle |
First awarded | 1975 publications (1976) |
Website | http://bookcritics.org |
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".[1] The first NBCC awards were announced and presented January 16, 1976.[2]
There are six awards to books published in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year, in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism. Four of them span the entire NBCC award history; Memoir/Autobiography and Biography were recognized by one "Autobiography/Biography" award for publication years 1983 to 2004, then replaced by two awards. Beginning in 2014, the NBCC also presents a special "first book" award across all 6 categories, named the John Leonard Award in honor of literary critic and NBCC founding member John Leonard, who died in 2008.[3]
Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. Nor does the NBC Circle consider "cookbooks, self help books (including inspirational literature), reference books, picture books or children's books". They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories".[4]
The judges are the volunteer directors of the NBCC who are 24 members serving rotating three-year terms, with eight elected annually by the voting members,[5] namely "professional book review editors and book reviewers".[6]
Winners of the awards are announced each year at the NBCC awards ceremony in conjunction with the yearly membership meeting, which takes place in March.[7]
Winners
Fiction
General nonfiction
Memoir/Autobiography
Published | ||
2015 | Margo Jefferson | Negroland |
2014 | Roz Chast | Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? |
2013 | Amy Wilentz | Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti |
2012 | Leanne Shapton | Swimming Studies |
2011 | Mira Bartók | The Memory Palace |
2010 | Darin Strauss | Half a Life |
2009 | Diana Athill | Somewhere Towards the End |
2008 | Ariel Sabar | My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq |
2007 | Edwidge Danticat | Brother, I'm Dying |
2006 | Daniel Mendelsohn | The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million |
2005 | Francine du Plessix Gray | Them: A Memoir of Parents |
Biography
Published | ||
2015 | Charlotte Gordon | Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley |
2014 | John Lahr | Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh |
2013 | Leo Damrosch | Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World |
2012 | Robert A. Caro | The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
2011 | John Lewis Gaddis | George F. Kennan: An American Life |
2010 | Sarah Bakewell | How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne |
2009 | Blake Bailey | Cheever: A Life |
2008 | Patrick French | The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul |
2007 | Tim Jeal | Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer |
2006 | Julie Phillips | James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon |
2005 | Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Biography/Autobiography (discontinued)
Published | ||
2004 | Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan | De Kooning: An American Master |
2003 | William Taubman | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
2002 | Janet Browne | Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II |
2001 | Adam Sisman | Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson |
2000 | Herbert P. Bix | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
1999 | Henry Wiencek | The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White |
1998 | Sylvia Nasar | A Beautiful Mind |
1997 | James Tobin | Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II |
1996 | Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes |
1995 | Robert Polito | Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson |
1994 | Mikal Gilmore | Shot in the Heart |
1993 | Edmund White | Genet |
1992 | Carol Brightman | Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World |
1991 | Philip Roth | Patrimony: A True Story |
1990 | Robert A. Caro | Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II |
1989 | Geoffrey C. Ward | A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt |
1988 | Richard Ellmann | Oscar Wilde |
1987 | Donald R. Howard | Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World |
1986 | Theodore Rosengarten | Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter |
1985 | Leon Edel | Henry James: A Life |
1984 | Joseph Frank | Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859 |
1983 | Joyce Johnson | Minor Characters |
Poetry
Published | ||
2015 | Ross Gay | Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude |
2014 | Claudia Rankine | Citizen: An American Lyric |
2013 | Frank Bidart | Metaphysical Dog |
2012 | D. A. Powell | Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys |
2011 | Laura Kasischke | Space, In Chains |
2010 | C.D. Wright | One With Others |
2009 | Rae Armantrout | Versed |
2008 | Juan Felipe Herrera | Half the World in Light[a] |
2008 | August Kleinzahler | Sleeping it Off in Rapid City[a] |
2007 | Mary Jo Bang | Elegy |
2006 | Troy Jollimore | Tom Thomson in Purgatory |
2005 | Jack Gilbert | Refusing Heaven |
2004 | Adrienne Rich | The School Among the Ruins |
2003 | Susan Stewart | Columbarium |
2002 | B.H. Fairchild | Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest |
2001 | Albert Goldbarth | Saving Lives |
2000 | Judy Jordan | Carolina Ghost Woods |
1999 | Ruth Stone | Ordinary Words |
1998 | Marie Ponsot | The Bird Catcher |
1997 | Charles Wright | Black Zodiac |
1996 | Robert Hass | Sun Under Wood |
1995 | William Matthews | Time and Money |
1994 | Mark Rudman | Rider |
1993 | Mark Doty | My Alexandria |
1992 | Hayden Carruth | Collected Shorter Poems 1946–1991 |
1991 | Albert Goldbarth | Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology |
1990 | Amy Gerstler | Bitter Angel |
1989 | Rodney Jones | Transparent Gestures |
1988 | Donald Hall | That One Day |
1987 | C.K. Williams | Flesh and Blood |
1986 | Edward Hirsch | Wild Gratitude |
1985 | Louise Glück | The Triumph of Achilles |
1984 | Sharon Olds | The Dead and the Living |
1983 | James Merrill | The Changing Light at Sandover |
1982 | Katha Pollitt | Antarctic Traveler |
1981 | A.R. Ammons | A Coast of Trees |
1980 | Frederick Seidel | Sunrise |
1979 | Philip Levine | Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere |
1978 | L. E. Sissman | Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman |
1977 | Robert Lowell | Day by Day |
1976 | Elizabeth Bishop | Geography III |
1975 | John Ashbery | Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror |
Criticism
Published | ||
2015 | Maggie Nelson | The Argonauts |
2014 | Ellen Willis | The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz |
2013 | Franco Moretti | Distant Reading |
2012 | Marina Warner | Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights |
2011 | Geoff Dyer | Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews |
2010 | Clare Cavanagh | Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West |
2009 | Eula Biss | Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays |
2008 | Seth Lerer | Children’s Literature: A Readers’ History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter |
2007 | Alex Ross | The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century |
2006 | Lawrence Weschler | Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences |
2005 | William Logan | The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin |
2004 | Patrick Neate | Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet |
2003 | Rebecca Solnit | River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West |
2002 | William H. Gass | Tests of Time |
2001 | Martin Amis | The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000 |
2000 | Cynthia Ozick | Quarrel & Quandary |
1999 | Jorge Luis Borges | Selected Non-Fictions |
1998 | Gary Giddins | Visions of Jazz: The First Century |
1997 | Mario Vargas Llosa | Making Waves |
1996 | William H. Gass | Finding a Form |
1995 | Robert Darnton | The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France |
1994 | Gerald Early | The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture |
1993 | John Dizikes | Opera in America: A Cultural History |
1992 | Garry Wills | Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America |
1991 | Lawrence L. Langer | Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory |
1990 | Arthur C. Danto | Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present |
1989 | John Clive | Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History |
1988 | Clifford Geertz | Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author |
1987 | Edwin Denby | Dance Writings |
1986 | Joseph Brodsky | Less Than One: Selected Essays |
1985 | William H. Gass | Habitations of the Word: Essays |
1984 | Robert Hass | Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry |
1983 | John Updike | Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism |
1982 | Gore Vidal | The Second American Revolution and Other Essays |
1981 | Virgil Thomson | A Virgil Thomson Reader |
1980 | Helen Vendler | Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets |
1979 | Elaine Pagels | The Gnostic Gospels |
1978 | Meyer Schapiro | Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2) |
1977 | Susan Sontag | On Photography |
1976 | Bruno Bettelheim | The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales |
1975 | Paul Fussell | The Great War and Modern Memory |
John Leonard Award
Award for a best first book in any genre.
Published | ||
2015 | Kirstin Valdez Quade | Night at the Fiestas |
2014 | Phil Klay | Redeployment, short story collection |
2013 | Anthony Marra | A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, novel |
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Ivan Sandrof was one founder of the National Book Critics Circle[1] and its first President.[8]
The Sandrof Award has also been presented as the "Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing" and the "Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters".
Published | ||
2015 | Wendell Berry | |
2014 | Toni Morrison | |
2013 | Rolando Hinojosa-Smith | |
2012 | Sandra Gilbert Susan Gubar | |
2011 | Robert Silvers | editor of New York Review of Books |
2010 | Dalkey Archive Press | |
2009 | Joyce Carol Oates | |
2008 | PEN American Center[9] | |
2007 | Emilie Buchwald | co-founder of the Milkweed Editions publishing house |
2006 | John Leonard | |
2005 | Bill Henderson | founder of Pushcart Press |
2004 | Louis D. Rubin, Jr. | founder of Algonquin Press, author and editor of more than 50 books |
2003 | Studs Terkel | |
2002 | Richard Howard | |
2001 | Jason Epstein | |
2000 | Barney Rosset | |
1999 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti Pauline Kael | |
1998 | ||
1997 | Leslie Fiedler | |
1996 | Albert Murray | |
1995 | Alfred Kazin Elizabeth Hardwick | |
1994 | William Maxwell | |
1993 | ||
1992 | ||
1991 | ||
1990 | Donald Keene | |
1989 | James Laughlin | |
1988 | ||
1987 | Robert Giroux | |
1986 | ||
1985 | ||
1984 | The Library of America | |
1983 | ||
1982 | Leslie A. Marchand | |
1981 |
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
The Balakian Citation is annual. It honors Nona Balakian, who was one of three NBCC founders.[1][10] For 43 years, Balakian was an editor on the staff of the New York Times Book Review.[11] Five finalists are announced each year, one of whom is selected as the winner of the citation. The award has been called "the most prestigious award for book criticism in the country".[12]
Finalists
- Award year is for the book publication year, currently January 1 to December 31.
2015
The finalists were announced on January 18, 2016.[13] The winners () were announced March 17, 2016 at the New School in New York.[14]
Fiction
Paul Beatty, The Sellout
- Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
- Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth
- Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
- Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
Nonfiction
- Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
- Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
- Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
- Brian Seibert, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing
Autobiography
- Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World
- Vivian Gornick, The Odd Woman and the City
- George Hodgman, Bettyville
Margo Jefferson, Negroland: A Memoir
- Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk
Biography
- Terry Alford, Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
- T.J. Stiles, Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
- Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
- Karin Wieland and Shelly Frisch, Dietrich and Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives
Criticism
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
- Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
- Colm Tóibín, On Elizabeth Bishop
- James Wood, The Nearest Thing to Life
Poetry
Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude
- Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn
- Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things
- Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax: And Selected Poems
- Frank Stanford, What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
John Leonard Prize
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
- Carlos Lozada
2014
The finalists were announced on January 19, 2015.[15] The winners () were announced March 12, 2015.[16]
Fiction
- Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
- Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Lily King, Euphoria
- Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
Marilynne Robinson, Lila
General Nonfiction
David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
- Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
- Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
- Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
- Hector Tobar, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free
Poetry
- Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise
- Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
- Christian Wiman, Once in the West
- Jake Adam York, Abide
Autobiography
- Blake Bailey, The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
- Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side
- Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure
- Meline Toumani, There Was and There Was Not
Biography
- Ezra Greenspan, William Wells Brown: An African American Life
- S. C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
- Ian S. MacNiven, "Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
- Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
Criticism
- Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Innoculation
- Vikram Chandra, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
- Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
- Lynne Tillman, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
John Leonard Prize
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
2013
The finalists were announced on January 14, 2014.[17][18] The winners () were announced on March 13, 2014.[19]
Fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Knopf)
- Alice McDermott, Someone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Javier Marías, The Infatuations, translated by Margaret Jull Costa (Knopf)
- Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (Viking)
- Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (Little, Brown)
Nonfiction
- Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy, Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice (Norton)
Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown)
- David Finkel, Thank You for Your Service (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Knopf)
Poetry
Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion (Knopf)
- Denise Duhamel, Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Bob Hicok, Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon)
- Carmen Gimenez Smith, Milk and Filth (University of Arizona Press)
Autobiography
- Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave (Knopf)
- Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (Viking)
- Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped (Bloomsbury)
Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti (Simon & Schuster)
Biography
- Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Doubleday)
Leo Damrosch, Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (Yale University Press)
- John Eliot Gardiner, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Knopf)
- Linda Leavell, Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Mark Thompson, Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis (Cornell University Press)
Criticism
- Hilton Als, White Girls (McSweeney’s)
- Mary Beard, Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Liveright)
- Jonathan Franzen, The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus, translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen with Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Janet Malcolm, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (Verso)
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
John Leonard Prize
- Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Hogarth)
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
2012
The finalists were announced January 14, 2012.[20] The winners () were announced on Feb. 28, 2012.[21]
Fiction
- Laurent Binet, HHhH tr. by Sam Taylor
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son
- Lydia Millet, Magnificence
- Zadie Smith, NW
Nonfiction
- Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Steve Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
- Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
- David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Criticism
- Paul Elie, Reinventing Bach
- Daniel Mendelsohn, Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
- Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey
Marina Warner, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
- Kevin Young, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
Poetry
- David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
- Lucia Perillo, On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
- Allan Peterson, Fragile Acts
D. A. Powell, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
- A. E. Stallings, Olives
Autobiography
- Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us
- Maureen N. McLane, My Poets
- Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, In the House of the Interpreter
Biography
Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- Lisa Cohen, All We Know: Three Lives
- Michael Gorra, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
- Lisa Jarnot, Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography
- Tom Reiss, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
2011
The awards () were presented March 8, 2012, at the New School in New York City.[22]
Fiction
- Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
- Teju Cole, Open City
- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
- Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child
Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
Nonfiction
- John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead: Essays
Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
- James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
- Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Criticism
- David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
- Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
- Dubravka Ugresic, Karaoke Culture: Essays
- Ellen Willis, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
Poetry
- Bruce Smith, Devotions
- Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch
- Aracelis Girmay, Kingdom Animalia
- Forrest Gander, Core Samples From the World
Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains
Autobiography
- Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace
- Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
- Luis J. Rodriguez, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
- Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War
Biography
- Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution
John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
- Paul Hendrickson, Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961
- Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
- Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- Robert Silvers, editor of New York Review of Books
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
2010
The 2010 winners () were announced March 10, 2011.[23]
Fiction
Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)
- Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
- David Grossman, To The End of the Land (Knopf)
- Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
- Paul Murray, Skippy Dies (Faber & Faber)
Nonfiction
- Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Spiegel & Grau)
- S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American (Scribner)
- Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (Random )
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner )
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random)
Criticism
- Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Terry Castle, The Professor and Other Writings (Harper )
Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West (Yale University Press)
- Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance (University of Chicago Press)
- Ander Monson, Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf)
Biography
Sarah Bakewell, How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne (Other Press)
- Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham: A Biography (Random House)
- Yunte Huang, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History (Norton)
- Thomas Powers, The Killing Of Crazy Horse (Knopf)
- Tom Segev, Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends (Doubleday)
Autobiography
- Kai Bird, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 (Scribner)
- David Dow, The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve)
- Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir (Twelve)
- Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Hiroshima in the Morning (Feminst Press)
- Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco)
Darin Strauss, Half a Life (McSweeney’s)
Poetry
- Anne Carson, Nox (New Directions)
- Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press)
- Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Penguin Poets)
- Kay Ryan, The Best of It (Grove)
C.D. Wright, One With Others (Copper Canyon)
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
2009
The 2009 winners () were announced March 11, 2010.
Fiction
- Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
- Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead)
- Michelle Huneven, Blame (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG)
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Holt)
- Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Knopf)
General nonfiction
- Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press)
- Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books)
Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon)
- Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains (Random House)
- William T. Vollmann, Imperial (Viking)
Criticism
Eula Biss, Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press)
- Stephen Burt, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Graywolf Press)
- Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (Norton)
- David Hajdu, Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (Da Capo Press)
- Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Faber)
Biography
Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life (Knopf)
- Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Little, Brown)
- Benjamin Moser, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Oxford University Press)
- Stanislao G. Pugliese, Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Martha A. Sandweiss, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Penguin Press)
Autobiography
Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End (Norton)
- Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Mary Karr, Lit (Harper)
- Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America (Simon & Schuster)
- Edmund White, City Boy ( Bloomsbury)
Poetry
Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan)
- Louise Glück, A Village Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- D. A. Powell, Chronic (Graywolf Press)
- Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008 (Louisiana State University Press)
- Rachel Zucker, Museum of Accidents (Wave Books)
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
2008
The 2008 winners () were announced March 12, 2009.[24]
Fiction
Roberto Bolaño, 2666. (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, (Riverhead)
- Marilynne Robinson, Home, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, (Random House)
- M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (West Virginia University Press)
General nonfiction
- Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, (Knopf)
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, (Knopf)
- George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776. (Oxford University Press)
- Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, (Atlantic)
- Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, (Doubleday)
Autobiography
- Rick Bass, Why I Came West, (Houghton Mifflin)
- Helene Cooper, The House on Sugar Beach, (Simon and Schuster)
- Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, (W.W. Norton)
- Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven, (Harmony Books)
Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, (Algonquin)
Biography
- Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, (Penguin Press)
Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, (Knopf)
- Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, (Amistad)
- Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, (Norton)
- Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Knopf)
Poetry
Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light, (University of Arizona Press)[a]
- Devin Johnston, Sources, (Turtle Point Press)
August Kleinzahler, Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)[a]
- Pierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist, (Sheep Meadow Press)
- Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, (Copper Canyon Press)
Criticism
- Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, (Metropolitan Books)
- Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life. (Boston Review/MIT)
- Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, (Doubleday)
Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, (University of Chicago Press)
- Reginald Shepard, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, (University of Michigan Press)
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
2007
The 2007 award winners () were announced on March 6, 2008.[25][26]
Fiction
- Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games (HarperCollins)
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead)
- Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (Dial Press)
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter (Ecco)
- Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher (Simon and Schuster)
General nonfiction
- Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang)
- Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press)
Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday)
- Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday)
- Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne BKs/St. Martin’s)
Autobiography
- Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press)
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco)
- Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso)
- Anna Politkovskaya, Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia (Random House)
Biography
Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press)
- Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton (Knopf)
- Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison (Knopf)
- John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 (Knopf)
- Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)
Poetry
Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf)
- Matthea Harvey, Modern Life (Graywolf)
- Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking (Flood)
- Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood)
- Tadeusz Różewicz, New Poems (Archipelago)
Criticism
- Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon)
- Julia Alvarez, Once Upon a Quniceanera (Viking)
- Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream (Metropolitan/Holt)
- Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
- Brooke Allen
Sam Anderson, book critic for New York magazine
- Ron Charles
- Walter Kirn
- Adam Kirsch
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- Emilie Buchwald, writer, editor, and founding publisher of Milkweed Editions, in Minneapolis.
Notes
References
- ^ a b c "Thirty-five Years of Quality Writing and Criticism", NBCC. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ^ "NBCC to Add John Leonard Award to Honor First Books; Named After Founding Member". May 2013. National Book Critics Circle.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions" (no date), NBCC. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
- ^ "Board of Directors" (no date), NBCC. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ^ "Membership" (no date), NBCC. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
- ^ "National Book Critics Circle: FAQs". bookcritics.org. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
- ^ a b "National Book Critics Circle". bookcritics.org.
- ^ "Balakian Award" (no date), NBCC. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
- ^ Glueck, Grace (April 8, 1991). "Nona Balakian, 72, Retired Book Critic And Editor for Times". The New York Times.
- ^ "Congratulations to 'New York' Book Critic Sam Anderson!". New York Magazine. January 14, 2008.
- ^ Lorne Manly (January 18, 2016). "National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Nominees". New York Times. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
- ^ Alexandra Alter (March 17, 2016). "'The Sellout' Wins National Book Critics Circle's Fiction Award". New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
- ^ "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2014". National Book Critics Circle. January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
- ^ Alexandra Alter (March 12, 2015). "'Lila' Honored as Top Fiction by National Book Critics Circle". New York Times. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ^ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. March 13, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- ^ John Williams (January 14, 2012). "National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists". New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
- ^ John Williams (March 1, 2013). "Robert A. Caro, Ben Fountain Among National Book Critics Circle Winners". New York Times. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- ^ "NBCC Award Winners for Publishing Year 2011" (press release March 8, 2012). Barbara Hoffert. NBCC. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
- ^ "Jennifer Egan and Isabel Wilkerson Win National Book Critics Circle Awards", By JULIE BOSMAN, NY Times, March 10, 2011
- ^ Roberto Bolano's `2666' wins book critics prize, AP, March 13, 2009
- ^ "The National Book Critics Circle Award" (no date), NBCC. Retrieved 2008-03-07.
- ^ "The 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists". Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors. January 12, 2008. Retrieved March 7, 2008.
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