National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Award is a literary award American literary critic. He has been awarded annually since 1975 to new books in English ( translations ), currently (2010) in the categories of novel, non-fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, criticism.
The National Book Critics Circle, the literary critic association behind the price, gives also the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing and Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
Award winners
Novel
Non-fiction book
Poetry
Biography / Autobiography
Autobiography
- 2005: Francine du Plessix Gray, Them: A Memoir of Parents
- 2007: Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
- 2008: Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son 's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
- 2009: Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End
- 2011: Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace: A Memoir
- 2012: Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies
Biography
- 2005: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 2006: Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
- 2007: Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
- 2008: Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of VS Naipaul
- 2009: Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life
- 2011: John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
- 2012: Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson