National Book Critics Circle Award
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De National Book Critics Circle Award is een jaarlijkse prijs voor Engelstalige boeken, uitgereikt door de National Book Critics Circle (NBCC).
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Prijzen [bewerken]
De belangrijkste prijzen zijn: fictie, non-fictie, poëzie, memoires/autobiografie, biografie en kritiek (criticism). Alleen nieuw verschenen boeken komen in aanmerking, herdrukken en pocket-uitgaven niet. Ook vertalingen, korte verhalen en essay-bundels zijn kanshebbers. De NBCC-leden verkiezen 24 personen om de boeken te nomineren en te jureren.
Fictie [bewerken]
- 2009 Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
- 2008 Roberto Bolaño, 2666
- 2007 Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- 2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
- 2005 E.L. Doctorow The March
- 2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead
- 2003 Edward P. Jones The Known World
- 2002 Ian McEwan Atonement
- 2001 W.G. Sebald Austerlitz
- 2000 Jim Crace Being Dead
- 1999 Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn
- 1998 Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman
- 1997 Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower
- 1996 Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds
- 1995 Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss
- 1994 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
- 1993 Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
- 1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
- 1991 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
- 1990 John Updike Rabbit at Rest
- 1989 E.L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate
- 1988 Bharati Mukherjee The Middleman and Other Stories
- 1987 Philip Roth The Counterlife
- 1986 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden
- 1985 Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist
- 1984 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine
- 1983 William Kennedy Ironweed
- 1982 Stanley Elkin George Mills
- 1981 John Updike Rabbit Is Rich
- 1980 Shirley Hazzard The Transit Of Venus
- 1979 Thomas Flanagan The Year of the French
- 1978 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
- 1977 Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
- 1976 John Gardner October Light
- 1975 E.L. Doctorow Ragtime
Non-fictie [bewerken]
- 2009 Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- 2008 Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
- 2007 Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
- 2006 Simon Schama Rough Crossings|Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
- 2005 Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
- 2004 Diarmaid MacCulloch The Reformation: A History
- 2003 Paul Hendrickson Sons of Mississippi
- 2002 Samantha Power A Problem from Hell|A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
- 2001 Nicholson Baker Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
- 2000 Ted Conover Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
- 1999 Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
- 1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
- 1997 Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- 1996 Jonathan Raban Bad Land: An American Romance
- 1995 Jonathan Harr A Civil Action
- 1994 Lynn H. Nicholas The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
- 1993 Alan Lomax The Land Where the Blues Began
- 1992 Norman Maclean Young Men and Fire
- 1991 Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
- 1990 Shelby Steele The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
- 1989 Michael Dorris The Broken Cord
- 1988 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63,
- 1987 Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 1986 John W. Dower War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
- 1985 J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
- 1984 Freeman Dyson Weapons and Hope
- 1983 Seymour M. Hersh The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
- 1982 Robert Caro The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Vol I
- 1981 Stephen Jay Gould The Mismeasure of Man
- 1980 Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century
- 1979 Telford Taylor Munich: The Price of Peace
- 1978 Maureen Howard Facts of Life
- 1977 Walter Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson
- 1976 Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
- 1975 R. W. B. Lewis Edith Wharton: A Biography
Poëzie [bewerken]
- 2009 Rae Armantrout, Versed
- 2008 Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light en August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
- 2007 Mary Jo Bang Elegy
- 2006 Troy Jollimore Tom Thomson in Purgatory
- 2005 Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven
- 2004 Adrienne Rich The School Among the Ruins
- 2003 Susan Stewart Columbarium
- 2002 B.H. Fairchild Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
- 2001 Albert Goldbarth Saving Lives
- 2000 Judy Jordan Carolina Ghost Woods
- 1999 Ruth Stone Ordinary Words
- 1998 Marie Ponsot The Bird Catcher
- 1997 Charles Wright Black Zodiac
- 1996 Robert Hass Sun Under Wood
- 1995 William Matthews Time and Money
- 1994 Mark Rudman Rider
- 1993 Mark Doty My Alexandria
- 1992 Hayden Carruth Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
- 1991 Albert Goldbarth Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
- 1990 Amy Gerstler Bitter Angel
- 1989 Rodney Jones Transparent Gestures
- 1988 Donald Hall That One Day
- 1987 C.K. Williams Flesh and Blood
- 1986 Edward Hirsch Wild Gratitude
- 1985 Louise Glück The Triumph of Achilles
- 1984 Sharon Olds The Dead and the Living
- 1983 James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover
- 1982 Katha Pollitt Antarctic Traveler
- 1981 A.R. Ammons A Coast of Trees
- 1980 Frederick Seidel Sunrise
- 1979 Philip Levine Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere
- 1978 L. E. Sissman Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
- 1977 Robert Lowell Day by Day
- 1976 Elizabeth Bishop Geography III
- 1975 John Ashberry Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror
Memoires/Autobiografie [bewerken]
- 2009 Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End*2007 Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying
- 2008 Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
- 2006 Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
- 2005 Francine du Plessix Gray Them: A Memoir of Parents
Biografie [bewerken]
- 2009 Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life
- 2008 Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
- 2007 Tim Jeal Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
- 2006 Julie Phillips James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
- 2005 Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 2004 Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan De Kooning: An American Master
- 2003 William Taubman Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
- 2002 Janet Browne Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II
- 2001 Adam Sisman Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson
- 2000 Herbert P. Bix Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- 1999 Henry Wiencek The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
- 1998 Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind
- 1997 James Tobin Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
- 1996 Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes
- 1995 Robert Polito Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
- 1994 Mikal Gilmore Shot in the Heart
- 1993 Edmund White Genet
- 1992 Carol Brightman Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
- 1991 Philip Roth Patrimony: A True Story
- 1990 Robert A. Caro Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II
- 1989 Geoffrey C. Ward A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
- 1988 Richard Ellman Oscar Wilde
- 1987 Donald R. Howard Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
- 1986 Theodore Rosengarten Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
- 1985 Leon Edel Henry James: A Life
- 1984 Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
- 1983 Joyce Johnson Minor Characters
Kritiek (criticism) [bewerken]
- 2009 Eula Biss, Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
- 2008 Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History
- 2007 Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
- 2006 Lawrence Weschler Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
- 2005 William Logan The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
- 2004 Patrick Neate Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
- 2003 Rebecca Solnit River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
- 2002 William H. Gass Tests of Time
- 2001 Martin Amis The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
- 2000 Cynthia Ozick Quarrel & Quandary
- 1999 Jorge Luis Borges Selected Non-Fictions
- 1998 Gary Giddins Visions of Jazz: The First Century
- 1997 Mario Vargas Llosa Making Waves
- 1996 William H. Gass Finding a Form
- 1995 Robert Darnton The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
- 1994 Gerald Early The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
- 1993 John Dizikes Opera in America: A Cultural History
- 1992 Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
- 1991 Lawrence L. Langer Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
- 1990 Arthur C. Danto Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present
- 1989 John Clive Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
- 1988 Clifford Geertz Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
- 1987 Edwin Denby Dance Writings
- 1986 Joseph Brodsky Less Than One: Selected Essays
- 1985 William H. Gass Habitations of the Word: Essays
- 1984 Robert Hass Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
- 1983 John Updike Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
- 1982 Gore Vidal The Second American Revolution and Other Essays
- 1981 Virgil Thomson A Virgil Thomson Reader
- 1980 Helen Vendler Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
- 1979 Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels
- 1978 Meyer Schapiro Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)
- 1977 Susan Sontag On Photography
- 1976 Bruno Bettelheim The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales
- 1975 Paul Fussell The Great War and Modern Memory
