Awards & Winners

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award

Check winners and nominations of 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award. Check awards winners of 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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

Jim Crace

Honored for : Being Dead

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jim Crace Being Dead
Amy Bloom A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
David Means Assorted Fire Events
Zadie Smith White Teeth
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Ted Conover

Honored for : Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

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Nominee Nominated Work
Ted Conover Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Fred Anderson Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Frances FitzGerald Way out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War
Laurie Garrett Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
Alice Kaplan The Collaborator
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Judy Jordan

Honored for : Carolina Ghost Woods

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Nominee Nominated Work
Judy Jordan Carolina Ghost Woods
Michael Collins The Ledge
Anne Carson Men in the Off Hours
Yusef Komunyakaa Talking Dirty to the Gods
Davis McCombs Ultima Thule
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography

Herbert P. Bix

Honored for : Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

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Nominee Nominated Work
Herbert P. Bix Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Robin Marantz Henig The Monk in the Garden
Victor Klemperer I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945
David Nasaw The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
Jean-Yves TadiƩ Marcel Proust: A Life
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Cynthia Ozick

Honored for : Quarrel & quandary

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Nominee Nominated Work
Cynthia Ozick Quarrel & quandary
Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present- 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
Claudia Roth Pierpont Passionate Minds
Charles Rosen [null]
Sherod Santos A Poetry of Two Minds
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

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