2018 National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced
Last night, the National Book Critics Circle announced the year’s award winners at the New School in New York City. Anna Burns’ enigmatic novel, Milkman, which also won the 2018 Man Booker Prize, picked up the top prize for fiction. Directorate S, Steve Coll’s detailed investigation into U.S. and CIA military involvement in Afghanistan and Pakistan, took the nonfiction prize. Also honored at the ceremony were the winners of three other awards: Tommy Orange received the John Leonard Prize for his debut, There There; Arte Público Press took home the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award; and Maureen Corrigan accepted the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Here’s the complete list of the NBCC Awards, linked to their Booklist reviews:
Autobiography
Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home, by Nora Krug
Biography
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous, by Christopher Bonanos
Criticism
Feel Free, by Zadie Smith
Fiction
Milkman, by Anna Burns
Nonfiction
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, by Steve Coll
Poetry
The Carrying, by Ada Limón
About the Author: Michael Ruzicka
Michael Ruzicka, Office Manager, was raised in suburban Los Angeles, received a BA in Creative Writing/Poetry at UC Santa Cruz, then moved to Birmingham, AL, where he spent five years owning an independent bookstore and earned an MLIS. He has brought his librarian skills to Vanderbilt’s Television News Archive, Battle Ground Academy, The Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, and the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Michael is very excited to be a part of Booklist and call Chicago his home.Subscribe
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