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Three Decades of Quality Writing and Criticism

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a nonprofit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns. read more »

2008 NBCC Award Winners

Fiction

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Roberto Bolaño
2666
(Farrar, Straus)


General Nonfiction

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Dexter Filkins
The Forever War
(Knopf)


Biography

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Patrick French
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
(Knopf)


Autobiography

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Ariel Sabar
My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
(Algonquin)


Poetry

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Juan Felipe Herrera
Half the World in Light
(University of Arizona Press)


Poetry

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August Kleinzahler
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
(Farrar, Strauss)


Criticism

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Seth Lerer
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
(University of Chicago Press)


Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

PEN American Center


Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Ron Charles, the Washington Post Book World