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Le National Book Critics Circle Award est un prix annuel décerné par le National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) de promouvoir plus beaux livres et revues publiés en anglais.
Les prix se répartissent en six grandes catégories: romans et nouvelles, poésie, Memoir / Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism. Bourses ne sont pas donnés aux titres qui ont été précédemment publiés en anglais, telles que les nouveaux numéros et éditions de poche. Ils n'ont pas non plus «d'examiner les livres de cuisine, livres d'auto-assistance (y compris la littérature d'inspiration), ouvrages de référence, livres d'images ou livres pour enfants."[1] Les titres sont toutefois admissibles à être remis si elle est "la traduction, de nouvelles et recueils d'essais , auto publié des livres, et tous les titres qui entrent dans les catégories générales ci-dessus. " La composition NBCC élit une personne 24 tous les bénévoles du conseil d'administration de nommer et de juger les livres pour les prix et guide tous les jours-to-day activities[2].
2008 finalistes et gagnants
Les lauréats 2008 ont été annoncés Mars 12, 2009 (gagnants en gras)[3].
Fiction
- Roberto Bolaño, 2666. (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, (Riverhead)
- Marilynne Robinson, Home, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, (Random House)
- M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (West Virginia University Press)
Ouvrages généraux
- Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, (Knopf)
- Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, (Knopf)
- George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776. (Oxford University Press)
- Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, (Atlantic)
- Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, (Doubleday)
Autobiographie
- Rick Bass, Why I Came West, (Houghton Mifflin)
- Helene Cooper, The House on Sugar Beach, (Simon and Schuster)
- Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, (W.W. Norton)
- Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven, (Harmony Books)
- Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, (Algonquin)
Biographie
- Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, (Penguin Press)
- Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, (Knopf)
- Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, (Amistad)
- Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, (Norton)
- Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Knopf)
Poésie
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light, (University of Arizona Press)[4]
- Devin Johnston, Sources, (Turtle Point Press)
- August Kleinzahler, Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)[4]
- Pierre Martony (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist, (Sheep Meadow Press)
- Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, (Copper Canyon Press)
Criticism
- Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, (Metropolitan Books)
- Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life. (Boston Review/MIT)
- Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, (Doubleday)
- Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, (University of Chicago Press)
- Reginald Shepard, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, (University of Michigan Press)
La Nona Balakian Citation d'excellence pour l'examen
- Michael Antman
- Ron Charles
- Kathryn Harrison
- Laila Lalami
- Todd Shy
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- PEN American Center[5]
2007 finalistes et gagnants
En 2007, les lauréats (en gras) ont été annoncés le 6 mars, 2008[6],[7].
Fiction
- Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games (HarperCollins)
- Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead)
- Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (Dial Press)
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter (Ecco)
- Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher (Simon and Schuster)
Ouvrages généraux
- Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang)
- Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press)
- Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday)
- Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday)
- Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne BKs/St. Martin’s)
Autobiographie
- Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press)
- Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco)
- Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso)
- Anna Politkovskaya, Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia (Random House)
Biographie
- Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press)
- Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton (Knopf)
- Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison (Knopf)
- John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 (Knopf)
- Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)
Poésie
- Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf)
- Matthea Harvey, Modern Life (Graywolf)
- Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking (Flood)
- Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood)
- Tadeusz Różewicz, New Poems (Archipelago)
Critiques
- Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon)
- Julia Alvarez, Once Upon a Quniceanera (Viking)
- Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream (Metropolitan/Holt)
- Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
La Nona Balakian Citation d'excellence pour l'examen
- Brooke Allen
- Sam Anderson, critique littéraire du New York magazine
- Ron Charles
- Walter Kirn
- Adam Kirsch
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- Emilie Buchwald, écrivain, éditeur, fondateur et éditeur des Editions Asclépiade, à Minneapolis.
Fiction
2008 Roberto Bolaño 2666 2007 Junot Diaz 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 Ouvrages généraux
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: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution 2005 Svetlana Alexievitch 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: 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 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 Mémoire / Autobiography
2008 Ariel Sabar My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq 2007 Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying 2006 Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million 2005 Francine du Plessix Gray Them: A Memoir of Parents Biographie
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 Biography / Autobiography (interrompu)
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 Ellmann 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 Poésie
2008 Juan Felipe Herrera Half the World in Light[4] 2008 August Kleinzahler Sleeping it Off in Rapid City[4] 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 Ashbery Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror Critique
2008 Seth Lerer Children’s Literature: A Readers’ History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter 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 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Ce prix a également été présenté comme le Prix Sandrof Ivan pour l'ensemble des réalisations de l'édition et Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution à l'American Arts & Lettres.
- 2008: PEN American Center[5]
- 2007: Emilie Buchwald, co-fondateur de Milkweed Editions publishing house
- 2006: John Leonard
- 2005: Bill Henderson, fondateur de Pushcart Press
- 2004: Louis D. Rubin, Jr., fondateur de Algonquin Press et auteur et éditeur de plus de 50 livres
- 2003: Studs Terkel
- 2002: Richard Howard
- 2001: Jason Epstein
- 2000: Barney Rosset
- 1999: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pauline Kael
- 1998:
- 1997: Leslie Fiedler
- 1996: Albert Murray
- 1995: Alfred Kazin and Elizabeth Hardwick
- 1994: William Maxwell
- 1993:
- 1992:
- 1991:
- 1990: Donald Keene
- 1989: James Laughlin
- 1988:
- 1987: Robert Giroux
- 1986:
- 1985:
- 1984: The Library of America
- 1983:
- 1982: Leslie A. Marchand
- 1981:
Nona Balakian Citation d'excellence pour l'examen
- 2008: Ron Charles of The Washington Post
- 2007: Sam Anderson of New York magazine
- 2006: Steven G. Kellman
- 2005: Wyatt Mason, collaborateur de Harper's, The New Yorker, The New Republic
- 2004: David Orr, collaborateur de The New York Times Book Review and Poetry Magazine
- 2003: Scott McLemee
- 2002: Maureen N. McLane
- 2001: Michael Gorra
- 2000: Daniel Mendelsohn
- 1999: Benjamin Schwarz
- 1998: Albert Mobilio
- 1997: Thomas Mallon
- 1996: Dennis Drabelle
- 1995: Laurie Stone
- 1994: JoAnn C. Gutin
- 1993: Brigitte Frase
- 1992: Elizabeth Ward
- 1991: George Scialabba
Références
- Frequently Asked Questions, National Book Critics Circle, undated. Consulté le 2008-03-07
- The National Book Critics Circle | Home
- Roberto Bolano's `2666' wins book critics prize, AP, March 13, 2009
- For the first time in the awards history, two books were awarded the prize for the same category: Poetry, 2008
- PEN American Center Receives the NBCC’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award
- The National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle, undated. Consulté le 2008-03-07
- The 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists, Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors, 2008-01-12. Consulté le 2008-03-07
Liens externes
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- National Book Critics Circle Award
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