The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced its finalists for the publishing year 2015 in six categories: Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. The jury, compiled of critics and book review editors, chose five finalists for each category – nominating 30 books in total. Finalists include: Ta-Nehisi Coates, a National Book Award Winner for his biography Between the World and Me; Poet Ada Limón for Bright Dead Things; and, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff for her ambitious novel Fates and Furies. The winners will be announced on March 17, 2016 at the New School in New York City, and the ceremony will be free and open to the public.
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In addition, the NBCC announced the winners for three annual awards. Prolific author, environmentalist, pacifist, and farmer Wendell Berry will receive the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award; Kirstin Valdez Quade will receive the John Leonard Prize which recognizes “outstanding first books in any genre” for her story collection Night at the Fiestas; and, Carlos Lozada, an associate editor and nonfiction book critic for The Washington Post will receive the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
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Full list of award finalists for 2015:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World
Vivian Gornick, The Odd Woman and the City
George Hodgman, Bettyville
Margo Jefferson, Negroland
Helen Macdonald, H Is for Hawk
BIOGRAPHY
Terry Alford, Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
T.J. Stiles, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Karin Wieland and Shelly Frisch, Dietrich and Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives
CRITICISM
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
Colm Tóibín, On Elizabeth Bishop
James Wood, The Nearest Thing to Life
FICTION
Paul Beatty, The Sellout
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth
Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
GENERAL NONFICTION
Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Rome
Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Brian Seibert, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing
POETRY
Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude
Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn
Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things
Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax and Selected Poems
Frank Stanford, What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford
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