Awards & Winners

2003 National Book Critics Circle Award

Check winners and nominations of 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award. Check awards winners of 2003 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

Edward P. Jones

Honored for : The Known World

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Nominee Nominated Work
Edward P. Jones The Known World
Monica Ali Brick Lane
Richard Powers The Time of Our Singing
Tobias Wolff Old School
Caryl Phillips A Distant Shore
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Paul Hendrickson

Honored for : Sons of Mississippi

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Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Hendrickson Sons of Mississippi
Caroline Alexander The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family
William T. Vollmann Rising Up and Rising Down
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Susan Stewart

Honored for : Columbarium

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Nominee Nominated Work
Susan Stewart Columbarium
Carolyn Forché Blue Hour
Tony Hoagland What Narcissism Means to Me
Vénus Khoury-Ghata She Says
Mary Szybist Granted
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography

William Taubman

Honored for : Khrushchev
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Rebecca Solnit

Honored for : River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

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Nominee Nominated Work
Rebecca Solnit River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Dagoberto Gilb Gritos
Nick Hornby Songbook
Ross King Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

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