Our Biography, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, John Leonard Prize ‘23 NBCC Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle Awards is the year’s first multi-category major competition for achievement in adult fiction and nonfiction. We will compete with finalists in five of the categories; the winners announced at a Manhattan ceremony March 21.
Biography
WINNIE AND NELSON: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg (Knopf)
Fiction
TREMOR by Teju Cole (Random House)
NORTH WOODS by Daniel Mason (Random House)
I AM HOMELESS IF THIS IS NOT MY HOME by Lorrie Moore (Knopf)
VENGEANCE IS MINE by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump (Knopf)
Nonfiction
BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS by Kerry Howley (Knopf)
INFORMATION DESK by Robyn Schiff (Penguin Books)
John Leonard Prize
WAITING TO BE ARRESTED AT NIGHT: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman (Penguin Press)
WHEN CRACK WAS KING by Donovan X. Ramsey (One World)
Judy Blume
The Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award: Judy Blume
The National Book Critic Circle is a nationwide organization of working book reviewers, editors, essayists, and pundits who vote for their finalist choices among the preceding year’s “best” works, determining this year’s winners with their second voting opportunity, timed to the March 21 event.
Bravo to our nominated authors and their publishers.