Awards & Winners

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award

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

Junot Díaz

Honored for : The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Nominee Nominated Work
Hisham Matar In the Country of Men
Vikram Chandra Sacred Games
Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Joyce Carol Oates The Gravedigger's Daughter
Marianne Wiggins The Shadow Catcher
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography

Edwidge Danticat

Honored for : Brother, I'm Dying

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Nominee Nominated Work
Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying
Sara Paretsky Writing in an Age of Silence
Anna Politkovskaya A Russian Diary
Joshua Clark Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
Joyce Carol Oates The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

Tim Jeal

Honored for : Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

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Nominee Nominated Work
Tim Jeal Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
Hermione Lee Edith Wharton
Arnold Rampersad Ralph Ellison
Claire Tomalin Thomas Hardy
John Richardson A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Harriet A. Washington

Honored for : Medical Apartheid

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Nominee Nominated Work
Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid
Alan Weisman The World Without Us
Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Daniel Walker Howe What Hath God Wrought: the Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Philip F. Gura American Transcendentalism
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Mary Jo Bang

Honored for : Elegy

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Nominee Nominated Work
Tom Pickard Ballad of Jamie Allan
Mary Jo Bang Elegy
Matthea Harvey Modern Life
Tadeusz Ró?ewicz New Poems
Michael O'Brien
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Alex Ross

Honored for : The Rest Is Noise

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Nominee Nominated Work
Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise
Julia Alvarez Once Upon a Quinceanera
Joan Acocella Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
Susan Faludi The Terror Dream
Ben Ratliff Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Sam Anderson

(New York magazine)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Sam Anderson
book critic for New York magazine
Ron Charles
Walter Kirn
Adam Kirsch
Brooke Allen

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