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National
Book Critics Circle Awards
Every year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest
books published in English. Since its founding in 1974, the purpose of NBCC
has been to encourage and raise the quality of book criticism in all media,
and to provide for an exchange of information between fellow professionals.
The National Book Critics Circle Awards were established in 1981 to honor the
best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography,
poetry, and criticism. In addition, each year the NBCC awards the Ivan Sandrof
Award for Contribution to American Arts and Letters and salutes one member
of the Circle with the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
The National Book Critics Circle Awards winners are chosen by more than 700
book reviewers.
| 2002 |
Fiction: Atonement, Ian McEwan
Nonfiction: A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
Poetry: Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, B.H. Fairchild
Criticism: Tests of Time, William H. Gass
Biography: Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Janet Browne |
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| 2001 |
Fiction: Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald
Nonfiction: Doublefold: Libraries and the Assault
on Paper, Nicholson Baker
Poetry: Saving Lives, Albert Goldbarth
Criticism: The War Against Cliché, Martin Amis
Biography: Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson, Adam Sisman |
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| 2000 |
Fiction: Being Dead, Jim Crace
Nonfiction: Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, Ted Conover
Poetry: Carolina Ghost Woods, Judy Jordan
Criticism: Quarrel & Quandary, Cynthia Ozick
Biography: Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, Herbert
P. Bix |
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| 1999 |
Fiction: Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
Nonfiction: Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist: and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior, Jonathan Weiner
Poetry: Ordinary Words, Ruth Stone
Criticism: Selected Non-Fictions. Jorge Luis Borges
Biography: The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, Henry Wiencek |
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| 1998 |
Fiction: The Love of a Good Woman, Alice Munro
Nonfiction: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, Philip Gourevitch.
Biography and Autobiography: A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
Poetry: The Bird Catcher, Marie Ponsot |
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| 1997 |
Fiction : The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald
Nonfiction: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
Biography and Autobiography: Ernie Pyle's War, James E Tobin
Poetry: Black Zodiac, Charles Wright |
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| 1996 |
Fiction: Women in their Beds, Gina Berriault
General Nonfiction: Bad Land: An American Romance, Jonathan Raban
Biography and Autobiography: Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt
Poetry: Sun Under Wood, Robert Hass
Criticism: Finding a Form, William Gass |
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| 1995 |
Fiction: Mrs. Ted Bliss, Stanley Elkin
Nonfiction: A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr
Biography and Autobiography: Savage Art: A Biography of Jim
Thompson, Robert Polito
Poetry: Time & Money: New Poems, William Matthews
Criticism: The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France, Robert
Darnt |
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| 1994 |
Fiction: The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
General Non-Fiction: The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's
Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War, Lynn H. Nicholas
Biography/Autobiography Shot in the Heart, Mikal Gilmore
Poetry: Rider, Mark Rudman |
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| 1993 |
Fiction: A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
General Non-Fiction: The Land Where the Blues Began, Alan
Lomax
Biography/Autobiography Genet, Edmund White
Poetry: My Alexandria, Mark Doty |
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| 1992 |
Fiction: All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
General Non-Fiction: Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean
Biography/Autobiography Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and
Her World, Carol Brightman
Poetry: Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991, Hayden Carruth |
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| 1991 |
Fiction: A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
General Non-Fiction: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against America
Women, Susan Faludi
Biography/Autobiography Patrimony: A True Story, Philip
Roth
Poetry: Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology, Albert Goldbarth |
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| 1990 |
Fiction: Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
General Non-Fiction: The Content of Our Character: A New Vision
of Race in America, Shelby Steele
Biography/Autobiography Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon
Johnson, Vol. II, Robert A. Caro
Poetry: Bitter Angel, Amy Gerstler |
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| 1989 |
Fiction: Billy Bathgate, E. L. Doctorow
General Non-Fiction: The Broken Cord, Michael Dorris
Biography/Autobiography A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence
of Franklin Roosevelt, Geoffrey C. Ward
Poetry: Transparent Gestures, Rodney Jones |
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| 1988 |
Fiction: The Middleman and Other Stories, Bharati Mukherjee
General Non-Fiction: Parting the Waters: America in the King
Years, 1954-63, Taylor Branch
Biography/Autobiography: Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellman
Poetry: That One Day, Donald Hall |
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| 1987 |
Fiction: The Counterlife, Philip Roth
General Non-Fiction: The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard
Rhodes
Biography/Autobiography Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World,
Donald R. Howard
Poetry: Flesh and Blood, C.K. Williams |
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| 1986 |
Fiction: Kate Vaiden, Reynolds Price
General Non-Fiction: War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the
Pacific War, John W. Dower
Biography/Autobiography Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter,
Theodore Rosengarten
Poetry: Wild Gratitude, Edward Hirsch |
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| 1985 |
Fiction: The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler (Knopf)
General Non-Fiction: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the
Lives of Three American Families, J. Anthony Lukas
Biography/Autobiography Henry James: A Life, Leon Edel
Poetry: The Triumph of Achilles, Louise Gluck |
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| 1984 |
Fiction: Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich
General Non-Fiction: Weapons and Hope, Freeman Dyson
Biography/Autobiography Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859,
Joseph Frank
Poetry: The Dead and the Living, Sharon Olds |
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| 1983 |
Fiction: Ironweed, William Kennedy
General Non-Fiction: The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon
White House, Seymour M. Hersch
Biography/Autobiography Minor Characters, Joyce Johnson
Poetry: The Changing Light at Sandover, James Merrill |
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| 1982 |
Fiction: George Mills, Stanley Elkin
General Non-Fiction: The Path of Power: The Years of Lyndon
Johnson, Robert Caro
Poetry: Antarctic Traveler, Katha Pollitt |
Please click on these prizes to go to their award lists:
Hans Christian Andersen Medal
Mildred L. Batchelder Award
Booker Prize
Caldecott Medal
Carnegie Medal
Edgar Allan Poe Award
Margaret A. Edwards Award
Giller Prize
Kate Greenaway Medal
Governor General's Literary Awards
Coretta Scott King Award
National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Awards
Newbery Medal
Nobel Prize
PEN/Faulkner Award
Pulitzer Prize
Sibert Award
Smarties Prize
Whitbread Award
Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal
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