National Book Critics Circle Awards: Margaret Atwood bekroond, Chabon, Smith, Matar genomineerd
17 januari 2017De National Book Critics Circle kondigt drie prijzen aan voor onder anderen Margaret Atwood en Yaa Gyasi, en nominaties voor de genreprijzen voor onder anderen Jenny Diski, Hisham Matar, Olivia Laing, Michael Chabon, Louise Erdrich, Adam Haslett, Ann Patchett, Zadie Smith en Viet Thanh Nguyen.
The National Book Critics Circle bestaat uit literair critici. Elk jaar komen ze met 'awards in six categories, honoring the best books published in the past year in the United States'. Vorig jaar wonnen onder anderen Paul Beatty en Maggie Nelson.
Atwood ontvangt de Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. Eerder werd het boek van Hisham Matar genomineerd voor de Costa Book Awards en de Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, Ibram X. Kendi werd bekroond met een National Book Award. 16 maart worden de winnaars bekendgemaakt.
Fiction
- Michael Chabon, Moonglow
- Louise Erdrich, LaRose
- Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
- Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
- Zadie Smith, Swing Time [recensie]
Autobiography
- Marion Coutts, The Iceberg
- Jenny Diski, In Gratitude
- Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
- Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between [fragment uit de Nederlandse vertaling]
- Kao Kalia Yang, The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
Biography
- Nigel Cliff, Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story
- Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
- Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
- Michael Tisserand, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
- Frances Wilson, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Criticism
- Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
- Mark Greif, Against Everything: Essays
- Alice Kaplan, Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
- Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
- Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
General Nonfiction
- Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
- John Edgar Wideman, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
Poetry
- Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons
- Tyehimba Jess, Olio
- Bernadette Mayer, Works and Days
- Robert Pinsky, At the Foundling Hospital
- Monica Youn, Blackacre
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