Mar 07 2008
Congratulations to National Book Critics Circle Winners
It’s easy to see how the United States is becoming more diverse and the books much wider in their subject area. The winners of this year’s National Book Critics Circle are Dominican American Junot Diaz, who took the fiction prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Harriet A. Washington, for her nonfiction entitled Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experientation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. The winning biography is Tim Jeal’s Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer, the awarded poetry is Mary Jo Bang’s “Elegy,” and the criticism winner is Alex Ross’ “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century.”
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of approximately 600 reviewers, who would like to honor quality writing as well as communicating with one another about issues of interest. Members receive a packet that contains the NBCC’s tips and guidelines for placing book reviews in publications around the country, which includes contact information for dozens of review editors and an outline of the critics and reviews they seek.
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