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NBCC Awards


by Jerome Weeks 7 Mar 2008 9:01 AM

The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last night in New York. Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Sam Anderson Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: Emilie Buchwald, founder of Milkweed Editions Criticism: Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Poetry: Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf […]
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The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last night in New York.

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Sam Anderson

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: Emilie Buchwald, founder of Milkweed Editions

Criticism: Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Poetry: Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf Press)

Biography: Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press)

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

Autobiography: Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (Knopf)

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

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About Jerome Weeks

Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.

COMMENTS

  • Brother I’m Dying was my favorite book from last year. It’s a heartwarming tale of immigrant experience, the tragedy of Haiti, as well as a tribute to the author’s love for her father and uncle, who provided 2 father figures for her. I highly recommend it.