The winners of the National Book Critics Circle awards, presented last night in New York City, are:

Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Riverhead)

Nonfiction: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington (Doubleday)

Autobiography: Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)
Biography: Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal (Yale University Press)

Poetry: Elegy by Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf)

Criticism: The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (FSG)

In addition, at last night's ceremony, member Sam Anderson of New York Magazine won the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, and Emilie Buchwald, editor, writer, and founder of Milkweed Editions, won the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.