National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism explained

The National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, established in 1975, is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English."[1] Awards are presented annually to books published in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism.

Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories."[2]

The judges are the volunteer directors of the NBCC who are 24 members serving rotating three-year terms, with eight elected annually by the voting members, namely "professional book review editors and book reviewers."[3] Winners of the awards are announced each year at the NBCC awards ceremony in conjunction with the yearly membership meeting, which takes place in March.

Recipients

National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism winners and finalists!Year!Author!Title!Result!Ref.
1975The Great War and Modern MemoryWinner
1976Winner
1977On PhotographyWinner
1978Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)Winner
1979The Gnostic GospelsWinner
1980Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American PoetsWinner
1981A Virgil Thomson ReaderWinner
1982The Second American Revolution and Other EssaysWinner
1983Hugging the Shore: Essays and CriticismWinner
1984Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on PoetryWinner
1985Habitations of the Word: EssaysWinner
1986Winner
1987Dance WritingsWinner
1988Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as AuthorWinner
1989Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of HistoryWinner
1990Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical PresentWinner
1991Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of MemoryWinner
1992Winner
1993Opera in America: A Cultural HistoryWinner
1994The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American CultureWinner
1995The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary FranceWinner
1996Finding a FormWinner
1997Making WavesWinner
1998Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyWinner
1999Selected Non-FictionsWinner
2000Quarrel & QuandaryWinner
2001The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000Winner
2002Tests of TimeWinner
2003River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild WestWinner
2004Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop PlanetWinner
2005The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of TinWinner[4]
Hal CrowtherGather at the River: Notes From the Post-Millennial SouthFinalist[5]
Arthur DantoUnnatural Wonders
John UpdikeStill Looking: Essays on American Art
Eliot WeinbergerWhat Happened Here: Bush Chronicles
2006Everything That Rises: A Book of ConvergencesWinner[6]
Bruce BawerWhile Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From WithinFinalist
Frederick CrewsFollies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays
Daniel DennettBreaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon
Lia PurpuraOn Looking: Essays
2007Winner[7] [8] [9]
Coltrane: The Story of a SoundFinalist
Once Upon a Quniceanera
The Terror Dream
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
2008Children's Literature: A Readers' History: Reader's History from Aesop to Harry PotterWinner[10]
Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc GodardFinalist[11]
Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
The Men in My Life
2009Notes from No Man's Land: American EssaysWinner[12] [13] [14]
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New PoetryFinalist
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture
Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
2010Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the WestWinner[15] [16]
The Cruel RadianceFinalist
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
The Professor and Other Writings
Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir
2011Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and ReviewsWinner[17] [18]
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of EverythingFinalist[19]
Karaoke Culture: Essays
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
2012Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsWinner[20] [21]
Madness, Rack, and HoneyFinalist[22] [23]
Reinventing Bach
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
2013Distant ReadingWinner[24] [25]
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and InnovationsFinalist[26]
Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
with Paul Reitter and Daniel KehlmanThe Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
White Girls
2014, edited by Nona Willis AronowitzThe Essential Ellen WillisWinner[27] [28]
Finalist[29]
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
2015The ArgonautsWinner[30]
Between the World and MeFinalist
Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
On Elizabeth Bishop
The Nearest Thing to Life
2016White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial DivideWinner[31]
Against Everything: EssaysFinalist
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
2017You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed MessagesWinner[32] [33] [34]
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake NewsFinalist[35]
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
2018Winner[36] [37] [38] [39]
Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017Finalist
The Reckonings: Essays
To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
2019Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Stories of Social UpheavalWinner[40] [41]
AxiomaticFinalist
Essays One
Go Ahead in the Rain
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
2020Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass IncarcerationWinner[42] [43] [44]
Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in AmericaFinalist
Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
Stranger Faces
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader
2021GirlhoodWinner[45]
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of AmazonFinalist[46] [47] [48]
The Right To Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays
2022Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional AgeWinner[49]
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make UsFinalist[50]
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
(trans. by Sophie Hughes)When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold
2023Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black InexpressionWinner
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans TechniquesFinalist[51]
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Creep: Accusations and Confessions
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: How We Pick Our Awards. https://web.archive.org/web/20200608004545/https://www.bookcritics.org/awards/selection/. dead. June 8, 2020. 2022-01-24. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  2. Web site: Frequently Asked Questions. 2022-01-24. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  3. Web site: Membership. 2022-01-24. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  4. Web site: 2005 . 2024-10-21 . National Book Critics Circle . en-US.
  5. Web site: 2005 . 2024-10-21 . National Book Critics Circle . en-US.
  6. Web site: 2006 . 2024-10-21 . National Book Critics Circle . en-US.
  7. Web site: 2008-03-07. National Book Critics Circle Announces 2007 Award Winners. 2022-01-25. the American Booksellers Association.
  8. Web site: 2008-03-07. 2007 NBCC Winners Announced. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  9. News: Rich. Motoko. 2008-03-07. National Book Critics Circle Awards. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-01-25. 0362-4331.
  10. Web site: 2008. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  11. Web site: Magee. C. Max. 2009-01-25. 2008 National Book Critics Circle Finalists Announced. 2022-01-25. The Millions. en-US.
  12. Web site: 2009. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  13. Web site: 2010-03-10. 2009 National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony. 2022-01-25. C-SPAN. en-us.
  14. Web site: Reid. Calvin. 2010-03-12. Mantel, Holmes, Biss Among 2009 National Book Critics Circle Winners. 2022-01-25. PublishersWeekly.com. en.
  15. Web site: 2010. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  16. Web site: Magee. C. Max. 2011-03-11. 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced. 2022-01-25. The Millions. en-US.
  17. Web site: 2011. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  18. Web site: The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2011. 2022-01-25. Book Reporter.
  19. Web site: Magee. C. Max. 2012-01-22. 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced. 2022-01-25. The Millions. en-US.
  20. Web site: 2012. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  21. Web site: Habash. Gabe. 2013-02-28. 2012 National Book Critics Circle Awards Go to 'Billy Lynn,' Solomon, Caro. 2022-01-25. PublishersWeekly.com. en.
  22. Web site: 2013-01-14. National Book Critics Awards Shortlist Announced. 2022-01-25. HuffPost. en.
  23. Web site: 2013-01-14. 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced. 2022-01-25. The Millions. en-US.
  24. Web site: 2013. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  25. Web site: Magee. C. Max. 2014-03-13. 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced. 2022-01-25. The Millions. en-US.
  26. Web site: 2014-01-14. 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced. 2022-01-25. The Millions. en-US.
  27. Web site: 2014. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  28. Web site: Schaub. Michael. 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award winners announced. 2022-01-24. Los Angeles Times. 13 March 2015 .
  29. Web site: Schaub. Michael. 2015-01-19. National Book Critics Circle announces 2014 awards finalists. 2022-01-24. Los Angeles Times.
  30. Web site: 2015. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  31. Web site: 2016. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  32. Web site: 2017. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  33. Web site: 2018-03-15. 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners. 2022-01-25. The Millions. en-US.
  34. Web site: Colyard. K. W.. 2018-03-16. The National Book Critics Circle Award Winners For 2017 Are All Women & You'll Want To Read All Their Books. 2022-01-25. Bustle. en.
  35. Web site: Temple. Emily. 2018-01-22. Here are the Finalists for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards. 2022-01-25. Literary Hub. en-US.
  36. Web site: 2018. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  37. Web site: Squires. Bethy. 2019-03-14. National Book Critics Circle Winners Include New York's Christopher Bonanos. 2022-01-25. Vulture. en-us.
  38. Web site: van Koeverden. Jane. 2019-03-15. Anna Burns, Zadie Smith among 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award winners. 2022-01-24. CBC Books.
  39. Web site: 2019-03-15. Congratulations to the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners. 2022-01-25. Book Marks. en-US.
  40. Web site: 2019. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  41. Web site: Reiter. Amy. 2020-03-13. National Book Critics Circle Announces 2019 Awards. 2022-01-25. Kirkus Reviews. en.
  42. Web site: Beer. Tom. 2021-03-25. National Book Critics Circle Presents Awards. 2022-01-25. Kirkus Reviews. en.
  43. Web site: 2020. 2022-01-25. National Book Critics Circle. en-US.
  44. Web site: National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Winners. 2022-01-25. Powell's Books.
  45. Web site: Beer . Tom . 2022-03-17 . NBCC Award Winners Revealed at Virtual Ceremony . 2022-03-20 . Kirkus Reviews . en.
  46. Web site: Bancroft . Colette . 2022-01-21 . National Book Critics Circle announces awards finalists . 2022-01-25 . Tampa Bay Times . en.
  47. Web site: Beer . Tom . 2022-01-20 . Finalists for the 2022 NBCC Awards Are Announced . 2022-01-25 . Kirkus Reviews . en.
  48. Web site: 2022-01-21 . 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards . 2022-01-25 . Locus Online . en-US.
  49. Web site: Varno . David . 2023-03-24 . Announcing the 2022 NBCC Award Winners . 2023-03-24 . National Book Critics Circle . en.
  50. Web site: Labrise . Megan . 2023-01-31 . NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022. 2022-03-24 . National Book Critics Circle . en.
  51. News: Stewart . Sophia . January 25, 2024 . 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Announced . . July 6, 2024.

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