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Thursday 2nd September

Diaz And Danticat Among 2007 NBCC Winners

Posted at 7:47AM Friday 07 Mar 2008

Fiction: Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead)

General Nonfiction: Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday)

Autobiography: Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)

Biography: Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (Yale)

Criticism: Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Poetry: Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf Press)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Sam Anderson, book critic for New York Magazine

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: Emile Buchwald, founding publisher of Milkweed Editions

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