NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2025

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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,

2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Barrios Book in Translation Prize

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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,

2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Nonfiction

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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

2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Poetry

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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

2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Biography

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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,

2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Autobiography

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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)

2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Criticism

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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,

2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Fiction

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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