National Book Critics Circle Announces Winners
Posted by: Courtney Jones
The votes are in, and the National Book Critics Circle has named winners:
Fiction
2666, by Roberto Bolaño
Nonfiction
The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins
Autobiography
My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, by Ariel Sabar
Biography
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, by Patrick French
Poetry
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, by August Kleinzahler
Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, by Juan Felipe Herrera
Criticism
Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter, by Seth Lerer
