Awards & Winners

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award

Check winners and nominations of 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Check awards winners of 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

Roberto Bolaño

Honored for : 2666

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Nominee Nominated Work
M. Glenn Taylor The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project
Roberto Bolaño 2666
Marilynne Robinson Home
Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

Patrick French

Honored for : The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

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Nominee Nominated Work
Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Patrick French The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Steve Coll The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Paula Giddings Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Brenda Wineapple White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

Dexter Filkins

Honored for : The Forever War

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Nominee Nominated Work
Drew Gilpin Faust This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Dexter Filkins The Forever War
Jane Mayer The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Allan Lichtman White Protestant Nation
George C. Herring From Colony to Superpower
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Juan Felipe Herrera

Honored for : Half of the World in Light

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Nominee Nominated Work
August Kleinzahler Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Juan Felipe Herrera Half of the World in Light
Brenda Shaughnessy Human Dark with Sugar
Devin Johnston Sources
Pierre Martory The Landscapist
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

August Kleinzahler

Honored for : Sleeping It Off in Rapid City

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Nominee Nominated Work
August Kleinzahler Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
Juan Felipe Herrera Half of the World in Light
Brenda Shaughnessy Human Dark with Sugar
Devin Johnston Sources
Pierre Martory The Landscapist
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

Seth Lerer

Honored for : Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter

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Nominee Nominated Work
Reginald Shepherd Orpheus in the Bronx
Seth Lerer Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Vivian Gornick The Men in My Life
Richard Brody Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard
Joel L. Kraemer Maimonides
Paula Giddings Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Steve Coll The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Patrick French The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Brenda Wineapple White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Ron Charles

(The Washington Post)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Kathryn Harrison
Laila Lalami
Michael Antman
Todd Shy
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography

Ariel Sabar

Honored for : My Father\u2019s Paradise: A Son\u2019s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

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Nominee Nominated Work
George C. Herring From Colony to Superpower
Jane Mayer The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Andrew X. Pham The Eaves of Heaven
Rick Bass Why I Came West
Helene Cooper The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
Honor Moore The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir
Allan Lichtman White Protestant Nation
Ariel Sabar My Father\u2019s Paradise: A Son\u2019s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

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