Book critics choice their favorites
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- March
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The National Book Critics Circle Awards , an organization of book reviewers founded in 1974, gave out its best book awards last week in New York City. The group says its ranks have swelled to roughly 700 members. I always like to check out this list of books. While they aren’t necessarily the most talked about bestsellers, they are usually really linteresting choices and reflect some of the most literary titles of the year.
Awards are in categories: of fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism. There are two special writing honors as well.
And the winners are:
Fiction:
Junot Diaz, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” (Riverhead Books).
General Nonfiction:
Harriet Washington, “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experiments on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” (Doubleday).
Biography:
Tim Jeal, “Stanley, the Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer” (Yale University Press).
Autobiography:
Edwidge Danticat, “Brother, I’m Dying” (Knopf).
Criticism:
Alex Ross, “The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Poetry:
Mary Jo Bang, “Elegy” (Graywolf Press).
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award:
Emilie Buchwald
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing:
Sam Anderson, New York Magazine
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