Awards & Winners

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award

Check winners and nominations of 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award. Check awards winners of 2001 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

W. G. Sebald

Honored for : Austerlitz

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Nominee Nominated Work
W. G. Sebald Austerlitz
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections
Alice Munro Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Ann Patchett Bel Canto
Colson Whitehead John Henry Days
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Nicholson Baker

Honored for : Double Fold

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Nominee Nominated Work
Nicholson Baker Double Fold
Nina Bernstein The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Jan T. Gross Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Sam Roberts The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Albert Goldbarth

Honored for : Saving Lives

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Nominee Nominated Work
Albert Goldbarth Saving Lives
Louise Glück The Seven Ages
Bob Hicok Animal Soul
Jane Hirshfield Given Sugar, Given Salt
Czes?aw Mi?osz [null]
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography

Adam Sisman

Honored for : Boswell's presumptuous task

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Nominee Nominated Work
Adam Sisman Boswell's presumptuous task
Paula Fox Borrowed Finery
David Hajdu Positively Fourth Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña
Katherine Clark Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on this Planet
Barry Werth The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin - A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Martin Amis

Honored for : The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000

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Nominee Nominated Work
Martin Amis The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
H.J. Jackson Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
W. D. Snodgrass De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong
Rebecca Solnit As Eve Said to the Serpent
Joy Williams Ill Nature
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

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