Monday, March 15, 2010

2009 National Book Critics Circle Winners

The 2009 winners of the National Book Critics Awards are:
Fiction: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
General Nonfiction: The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Autobiography: Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
Biography: Cheever by Blake Bailey
Criticism: Notes from No Man's Land by Eula Biss
Poetry: Versed by Rae Armantrout
Joan Acocella received the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Joyce Carol Oates received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.Of Oates, Edmund White said "Who has she not written about?"

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