Press Release: Events
National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony To Take Place On March 12, 2009
Posted at 8:04AM Friday 06 Mar 2009
On Thursday, March 12, 2009, the National Book Critics Circle will announce the winners of its book awards, covering books published in 2008. Thirty authors, including Roberto Bolaño, Marilynne Robinson, Dexter Filkins, Annette Gordon-Reed, Helene Cooper, Drew Gilpin Faust, and Rick Bass are up for consideration in six categories: fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, criticism, and poetry. (See below for a full list of finalists.) The NBCC will award the Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing to Ron Charles of the Washington Post Book World and the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award to the Pen American Center. In addition, on Wednesday, March 11, 2009, a reading of the finalists will be held, also at the New School. Both the reading and the awards ceremony are free and open to the public. The reception following the awards ceremony costs $45, with tickets available at the door. Specific information on date, time, and place for all events follows: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 NBCC Award Finalists Reading: 6:00 p.m. The New School University, Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St. Thursday, March 12, 2009 NBCC Awards Ceremony: 6:00 p.m. The New School University, Tishman Auditorium, 66 W. 12th St., New York City. Reception following ceremony: Lang Center, 55 W. 13th street, 2nd floor. Fiction Finalists Roberto Bolaño, 2666. Farrar, Straus Marilynne Robinson, Home. Farrar, Straus Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project. Riverhead M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart. West Virginia University Press Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteredge. Random Poetry Finalists August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City. Farrar, Strauss Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems. University of Arizona Press Devin Johnston, Sources. Turtle Point Press Pierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist: Selected Poems. Sheep Meadow Press Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar. Copper Canyon Press Criticism Finalists 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 Reginald Shepherd, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry. University of Michigan Press Seth Lerer, Children's Literature: A Reader's History: Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter. University of Chicago Press Biography Finalists Paula J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. Amistad. 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 Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. WW Norton Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Knopf Autobiography Finalists Rick Bass, Why I Came West: A Memoir. Houghton Mifflin. Helene Cooper, The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood. Simon & Schuster Honor Moore, The Bishop's Daughter: A Memoir. WW Norton Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars. Harmony Books Ariel Sabar, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq. Algonquin Nonfiction Finalists Dexter Filkins, The Forever War. Knopf Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War. Knopf Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals. Doubleday Allan J. Lichtman, White Protestant Nation: White Protestant Nation. Atlantic Monthly Press George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776. Oxford University Press The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974 at the Algonquin, is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization consisting of some 600 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns. It is managed by a 24-member all-volunteer board of directors. For more information, please contact National Book Critics Circle president Jane Ciabattari at janeciab@gmail.com or go to www.bookcritics.org.
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