National Book Critics Circle Award
The National Book Critics Circle Award er en årlig pris som utdeles av National Book Critics Circle (i) (CCNB) for å fremme de beste bøker og blader utgitt på engelsk.
Prisene er delt inn i seks hovedkategorier: romaner og noveller, poesi, memoar / selvbiografi, biografi og kritikk.
2008 finalister og vinnere
2008-vinnerne ble kunngjort den 12. mars 2009 (navnene på vinnerne er i fet skrift).
Skjønnlitteratur
- Roberto Bolaño , 2666 . (Farrar, Straus og Giroux)
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Aleksandar Hemon , The Lazarus Project , (Riverhead)
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Marilynne Robinson , Home , (Farrar, Straus og Giroux)
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Elizabeth Strout , Olive Kitteridge , (Random House)
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Mr. Glenn Taylor , The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart , (West Virginia University Press)
Generelle arbeider
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Drew Gilpin Faust , denne lidelsen , (Knopf)
- Dexter Filkins , The Forever War , (Knopf)
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George C. Herring , fra koloni til supermakt: USAs utenriksforhold siden 1776 . (Oxford University Press)
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Allan Lichtman , hvit protestantisk nasjon , (atlantisk)
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Jane Mayer , The Dark Side , (Doubleday)
Selvbiografi
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Rick Bass , Why I Came West , (Houghton Mifflin)
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Helene Cooper , The House on Sugar Beach , (Simon og Schuster)
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Honor Moore , The Bishop's Daughter , (WW Norton)
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Andrew X. Pham , The Eaves of Heaven , (Harmony Books)
- Ariel Sabar , My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq , (Algonquin)
Biografi
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Steve Coll , The Bin Ladens: En arabisk familie i et amerikansk århundre , (Penguin Press)
- Patrick French , The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of VS Naipaul , (Knopf)
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Paul J. Giddings , Ida, et sverd blant løver: Ida B. Wells og kampanjen mot lynking , (Amistad)
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Annette Gordon-Reed , The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family , (Norton)
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Brenda Wineapple , White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson , (Knopf)
Poesi
- Juan Felipe Herrera , Half the World in Light , (University of Arizona Press)
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Devin Johnston , Kilder , (Turtle Point Press)
- August Kleinzahler , Sleeping it Off i Rapid City , (Farrar, Straus og Giroux)
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Pierre Martony (overs. John Ashbery ), Landscapist , (Sheep Meadow Press)
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Brenda Shaughnessy , Human Dark with Sugar , (Copper Canyon Press)
Kritisk
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Richard Brody , Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard , (Metropolitan Books)
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Vivian Gornick , Mennene i livet mitt . (Boston Review / MIT)
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Joel L. Kraemer , Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization's Greatest Minds , (Doubleday)
- Seth Lerer , barnelitteratur: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter , (University of Chicago Press)
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Reginald Shepard , Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry , (University of Michigan Press)
La Nona Balakian Citation of Excellence for eksamen
- Michael antman
- Ron Charles
- Kathryn harrison
- Laila Lalami
- Todd sjenert
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
2007 finalister og vinnere
I 2007 ble vinnerne (i fet skrift) kunngjort den 6. mars, 2008.
Skjønnlitteratur
Generelle arbeider
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Philip Gura , amerikansk transendendalisme (Hill & Wang)
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Daniel Walker Howe , What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press)
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Harriet Washington , Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present ' (Doubleday)
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Tim Weiner , Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday)
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Alan Weisman , The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne BKs / St. Martin's)
Selvbiografi
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Joshua Clark , Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press)
- Edwidge Danticat , Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)
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Joyce Carol Oates , The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco)
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Sara Paretsky , Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso)
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Anna Politkovskaya , Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putins Russia (Random House)
Biografi
- Tim Jeal , Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press)
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Hermione Lee , Edith Wharton (Knopf)
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Arnold Rampersad , Ralph Ellison (Knopf)
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John Richardson , A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 (Knopf)
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Claire Tomalin , Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)
Poesi
- Mary Jo Bang , Elegy (Graywolf)
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Matthea Harvey , Modern Life (Graywolf)
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Michael O'Brien , Sleeping and Waking (Flood)
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Tom Pickard , The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood)
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Tadeusz Różewicz , Nye dikter (skjærgården)
Anmeldelser
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Joan Acocella , Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon)
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Julia Alvarez , Once Upon a Quinceañera (Viking)
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Susan Faludi , The Terror Dream (Metropolitan / Holt)
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Ben Ratliff , Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Alex Ross , The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
La Nona Balakian Citation of Excellence for eksamen
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
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Emilie Buchwald , forfatter, redaktør, grunnlegger og utgiver av Editions Asclépiade, i Minneapolis.
Skjønnlitteratur
Generelle arbeider
Minne / selvbiografi
Biografi
Biografi / Selvbiografi (avviklet)
Poesi
Kritisk
Ivan Setrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Denne prisen har også blitt delt ut som Setrof Ivan Award for Publishing Achievement og Ivan Setrof Award, Bidrag til American Arts & Letters.
Nona Balakian Citation of Excellence for the Exam
Referanser
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Roberto Bolanos 2666-pris vinner bokkritikerprisen , AP, 13. mars 2009
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For første gang i prisutdelingen ble to bøker tildelt prisen for samme kategori: Poesi, 2008
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PEN American Center mottar NBCCs Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award
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(i) " The National Book Critics Circle Award " , National Book Critics Circle , udatert (åpnet 7. mars 2008 )
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(in) " The Final Book Critics Circle Award Finalists 2007 " , Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors ,12. januar 2008(åpnet 7. mars 2008 )
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