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Major Book Awards |
Current and historical winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award, with links to further information at BookBrowse. |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award |
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| Each March, the NBCC present awards for the finest books and reviews published in English (in the USA) the previous year in six categories: Fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry. |
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2012
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
Binocular Vision
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Edith Pearlman
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Liberty's Exiles
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Maya Jasanoff
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NBCC Award for Biography:
George F. Kennan
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John Lewis Gaddis
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NBCC Award for Autobiography:
The Memory Palace
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Mira Bartok
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2011
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
A Visit from the Goon Squad
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Jennifer Egan
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
The Warmth of Other Suns
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Isabel Wilkerson
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NBCC Award for Biography:
How to Live
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Sarah Bakewell
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NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Half a Life
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Darin Strauss
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NBCC Award for Poetry:
One With Others
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C.D. Wright
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2010
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
Wolf Hall
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Hilary Mantel
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
The Age of Wonder
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Richard Holmes
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NBCC Award for Biography:
Cheever
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Blake Bailey
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NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Somewhere Towards the End
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Diana Athill
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NBCC Award for Poetry:
Versed
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Rae Armantrout
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2009
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
2666
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Roberto Bolano
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
The Forever War
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Dexter Filkins
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NBCC Award for Biography:
The World Is What It Is
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Patrick French
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NBCC Award for Autobiography:
My Father's Paradise
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Ariel Sabar
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2007
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Junot Diaz
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Medical Apartheid
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Harriet A. Washington
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NBCC Award for Biography:
Stanley
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Tim Jeal
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NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Brother, I'm Dying
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Edwidge Danticat
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2006
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
The Inheritance of Loss
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Kiran Desai
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Rough Crossings
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Simon Schama
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NBCC Award for Biography:
James Tiptree, Jr.
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Julie Phillips
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NBCC Award for Autobiography:
The Lost
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Daniel Mendelsohn
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2005
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
The March
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E.L. Doctorow
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Voices from Chernobyl
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Svetlana Alexievich
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NBCC Award for Biography:
American Prometheus
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Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
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NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Them
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Francine du Plessix Gray
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2004
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
Gilead
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Marilynne Robinson
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
The Reformation
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Diarmaid MacCulloch
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NBCC Award for Biography:
De Kooning
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Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan
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2003
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
The Known World
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Edward Jones
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Sons of Mississippi
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Paul Hendrickson
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NBCC Award for Biography:
Khrushchev
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William Taubman
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2002
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NBCC Award for Fiction:
Atonement
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Ian McEwan
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NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
A Problem from Hell
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Samantha Power
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NBCC Award for Biography:
Charles Darwin
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Janet Browne
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