Sunday, March 13, 2011

NBCC Awards

The National Book Critics Circle Awards went to:

A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Fiction)
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson (General Nonfiction)
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell (Biography)
Half a Life, by Darin Straus (Autobiography)
One with Others, by C.D. Wright (Poetry)
Lyric Poetry and Modern Poetry -- Russia, Poland, and the West, by Claire Cavanaugh (Criticism)

NBCC Release

Footnote:
In accepting her prize fiction winner Jennifer Egan said:
 "My publisher, Knopf, published it so beautifully that Kindle readers have e-mailed me to say that they were forced to buy the hardback to read the PowerPoint. So score one for print publishing."

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