Awards & Winners

1999 National Book Critics Circle Award

Check winners and nominations of 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award. Check awards winners of 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Jonathan Lethem

Honored for : Motherless Brooklyn

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn
A. Manette Ansay Midnight Champagne
Frederick Busch The Night Inspector: A Novel
J. M. Coetzee Disgrace
David Gates The Wonders of the Invisible World
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Jonathan Weiner

Honored for : Time, Love, Memory

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory
Jane Brox Five Thousand Days Like this One
John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Patricia Hampl I Could Tell You Stories
Jean-Paul Kauffmann Black Room at Longwood
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Ruth Stone

Honored for : Ordinary Words

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ruth Stone Ordinary Words
Rafael Campo Diva
Tory Dent HIV, Mon Amour: Poems
Rita Dove On the Bus with Rosa Parks
Susan Kinsolving Dailies & Rushes: Poems
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography

Henry Wiencek

Honored for : The Hairstons

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Nominee Nominated Work
Henry Wiencek The Hairstons
Richard Holmes Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
Jean Strouse Morgan: American Financier
Judith Thurman Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Susan E Tifft The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Jorge Luis Borges

Honored for : Selected Non-fictions

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jorge Luis Borges Selected Non-fictions
Stuart Klawans Film Follies
William Logan Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry
Michael Schmidt The Lives of the Poets
David Shields Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography

Alex Jones

Honored for : The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Henry Wiencek The Hairstons
Richard Holmes Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
Jean Strouse Morgan: American Financier
Judith Thurman Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Susan E Tifft The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times

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