The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) in the United States has formally announced 30 finalists for publishing year 2023 in six awards categories--autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, general nonfiction, and poetry. The awards will be presented in formal ceremonies on March 21, 2024 at The New School in New York City on 66 West 12th Street, New York.
For 2023, the National Book Critics Circle in the U.S. has announced 30 finalists in six categories
The finalists for the NBCC awards for publishing year are as follows:
AUTOBIOGRAPHY:Susan Kiyo Ito,
I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir (The Ohio State University Press)
David Mas Masumoto, with artwork by
Patricia Wakida,
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm (Red Hen Press)
Ahmed Naji,
Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison, translated by
Katharine Halls (McSweeney’s)
Safiya Sinclair,
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster)
Matthew Zapruder,
Story of a Poem: A Memoir (Unnamed Press)
BIOGRAPHY:Jonathan Eig,
King: A Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Gregg Hecimovich,
The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s Narrative (Ecco)
Yunte Huang,
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History (Liveright)
Rachel Shteir,
Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor (Yale University Press)
Jonny Steinberg,
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage (Knopf)
CRITICISM:Nicholas Dames,
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press)
Myriam Gurba,
Creep: Accusations and Confessions (Avid Reader Press)
Naomi Klein,
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Grace E. Lavery,
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques (Princeton University Press)
Tina Post,
Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression (NYU Press)
FICTION:Teju Cole,
Tremor (Random House)
Daniel Mason,
North Woods (Random House)
Lorrie Moore,
I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home (Knopf)
Marie NDiaye,
Vengeance Is Mine, translated by
Jordan Stump (Knopf)
Justin Torres,
Blackouts (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
NONFICTION:Roxanna Asgarian,
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Kerry Howley,
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs (Knopf)
Christina Sharpe,
Ordinary Notes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jeff Sharlet,
The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War (W. W. Norton)
Dina Nayeri,
Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough (Catapult Books)
POETRY: Saskia Hamilton,
All Souls (Graywolf Press)
Kim Hyesoon,
Phantom Pain Wings, translated by
Don Mee Choi (New Directions)
Romeo Oriogun,
The Gathering of Bastards (University of Nebraska Press)
Robyn Schiff,
Information Desk (Penguin Books)
Charif Shanahan,
Trace Evidence (Tin House)
GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE:Kareem Abdulrahman’s translation of
The Last Pomegranate Tree by
Bachtyar Ali (Archipelago Books)
Natascha Bruce’s translation of
Owlish by
Dorothy Tse (Graywolf Press)
Don Mee Choi’s translation of
Phantom Pain Wings by
Kim Hyesoon (New Directions)
Todd Fredson’s translation of
Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril by
Azo Vauguy (Action Books)
Maureen Freely’s translation of
Cold Nights of Childhood by
Tezer Özlü (Transit Books)
Tiffany Tsao’s translation of
Happy Stories, Mostly by
Norman Erikson Pasaribu (Feminist Press)
JOHN LEONARD PRIZE: Ariana Benson,
Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press)
Emilie Boone,
A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography (Duke University Press)
Victor Heringer,
The Love of Singular Men, translated by
James Young (New Directions)
Tahir Hamut Izgil,
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: a Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide, translated by
Joshua L. Freeman (Penguin Press)
Donovan X. Ramsey,
When Crack Was King (One World)
Martin J. Siegel,
Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs (Cornell University Press)
NBCC SERVICE AWARD:Marion WinikNONA BALAKIAN CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING:Becca RothfeldFinalists:
Rhoda FengChristoph IrmscherSophie PinkhamAudrey WollenTONI MORRISON ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:American Library AssociationIVAN SANDROF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:Judy BlumeRead the full NBCC awards announcement in the BookCritics.org website now!
