NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2025 Kevin Young, Arundhati Roy, Karen Hao among award winners; PBS and NPR honored with the Toni Morrison Achievement Award New

Frances FitzGerald to receive lifetime achievement award New York, NY (Tuesday, January 20)—Today, the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists in six categories – Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction,

Bodies Found in Various Places, by Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher (Cardboard House) (Poetry) Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, by Yoko Tawada,

America, América: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin (Penguin Press) Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and

After You Were, I Am, by Camille Ralphs (McSweeney’s) Chronicle of Drifting, by Yuki Tanaka (Copper Canyon) Death of the First Idea, by Rickey Laurentiis (Knopf) Into the Hush, by

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, by Sam Tanenhaus (Random House) Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography, by Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Love,

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday) The Broken King, by Michael Thomas (Grove) I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press)

Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025, by A.S. Hamrah (n+1) Authority: Essays, by Andrea Long Chu (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time,

The Antidote, by Karen Russell (Knopf) Audition, by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead) The Book of Records, by Madeleine Thien (W.W. Norton) Heart the Lover, by Lily King (Grove) Long Distance, by