National Book Critics Circle Award

De National Book Critics Circle Award is een jaarlijkse Amerikaanse literaire prijs voor Engelstalige boeken, uitgereikt door de National Book Critics Circle (NBCC).

Prijzen

De belangrijkste prijzen zijn: fictie, non-fictie, poëzie, memoires/autobiografie, biografie en kritiek (criticism). Alleen nieuw verschenen boeken komen in aanmerking, herdrukken en pocket-uitgaven niet. Ook vertalingen, korte verhalen en essay-bundels zijn kanshebbers. De NBCC-leden verkiezen 24 personen om de boeken te nomineren en te jureren.

Fictie

2022 Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
2021 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
2020 Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
2019 Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside
2018 Anna Burns, Milkman
2017 Joan Silber, Improvement
2016 Louise Erdrich, LaRose
2015 Paul Beatty, The Sellout
2014 Marilynne Robinson, Lila
2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
2012 Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2011 Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories
2010 Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
2009 Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
2008 Roberto Bolaño, 2666
2007 Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
2005 E.L. Doctorow The March
2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead
2003 Edward P. Jones The Known World
2002 Ian McEwan Atonement
2001 W.G. Sebald Austerlitz
2000 Jim Crace Being Dead
1999 Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn
1998 Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman
1997 Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower
1996 Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds
1995 Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss
1994 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
1993 Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
1991 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
1990 John Updike Rabbit at Rest
1989 E.L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate
1988 Bharati Mukherjee The Middleman and Other Stories
1987 Philip Roth The Counterlife
1986 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden
1985 Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist
1984 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine
1983 William Kennedy Ironweed
1982 Stanley Elkin George Mills
1981 John Updike Rabbit Is Rich
1980 Shirley Hazzard The Transit Of Venus
1979 Thomas Flanagan The Year of the French
1978 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
1977 Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
1976 John Gardner October Light
1975 E.L. Doctorow Ragtime

Non-fictie

2022 Isaac Butler, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
2021 Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
2020 Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
2019 Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: The True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
2018 Steve Coll, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
2017 Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
2016 Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
2015 Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic
2014 David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
2013 Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
2012 Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
2011 Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
2010 Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
2009 Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
2008 Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
2007 Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
2006 Simon Schama Rough Crossings|Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
2005 Svetlana Aleksijevitsj Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
2004 Diarmaid MacCulloch The Reformation: A History
2003 Paul Hendrickson Sons of Mississippi
2002 Samantha Power A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
2001 Nicholson Baker Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
2000 Ted Conover Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
1999 Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
1997 Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
1996 Jonathan Raban Bad Land: An American Romance
1995 Jonathan Harr A Civil Action
1994 Lynn H. Nicholas The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
1993 Alan Lomax The Land Where the Blues Began
1992 Norman Maclean Young Men and Fire
1991 Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
1990 Shelby Steele The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
1989 Michael Dorris The Broken Cord
1988 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63,
1987 Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1986 John W. Dower War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
1985 J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
1984 Freeman Dyson Weapons and Hope
1983 Seymour M. Hersh The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
1982 Robert Caro The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Vol I
1981 Stephen Jay Gould The Mismeasure of Man
1980 Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century
1979 Telford Taylor Munich: The Price of Peace
1978 Maureen Howard Facts of Life
1977 Walter Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson
1976 Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
1975 R. W. B. Lewis Edith Wharton: A Biography

Poëzie

2022 Cynthia Cruz, Hotel Oblivion
2021 Diane Seuss, Frank: Sonnets
2020 Francine J. Harris, Here Is The Sweet Hand
2019 Morgan Parker, Magical Negro
2018 Ada Limón, The Carrying
2017 Layli Long Soldier, Whereas
2016 Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons
2015 Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude
2014 Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
2013 Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog
2012 D. A. Powell, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
2011 Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains
2010 C.D. Wright, One With Others
2009 Rae Armantrout, Versed
2008 Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light en August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
2007 Mary Jo Bang Elegy
2006 Troy Jollimore Tom Thomson in Purgatory
2005 Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven
2004 Adrienne Rich The School Among the Ruins
2003 Susan Stewart Columbarium
2002 B.H. Fairchild Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
2001 Albert Goldbarth Saving Lives
2000 Judy Jordan Carolina Ghost Woods
1999 Ruth Stone Ordinary Words
1998 Marie Ponsot The Bird Catcher
1997 Charles Wright Black Zodiac
1996 Robert Hass Sun Under Wood
1995 William Matthews Time and Money
1994 Mark Rudman Rider
1993 Mark Doty My Alexandria
1992 Hayden Carruth Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
1991 Albert Goldbarth Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
1990 Amy Gerstler Bitter Angel
1989 Rodney Jones Transparent Gestures
1988 Donald Hall That One Day
1987 C.K. Williams Flesh and Blood
1986 Edward Hirsch Wild Gratitude
1985 Louise Glück The Triumph of Achilles
1984 Sharon Olds The Dead and the Living
1983 James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover
1982 Katha Pollitt Antarctic Traveler
1981 A.R. Ammons A Coast of Trees
1980 Frederick Seidel Sunrise
1979 Philip Levine Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere
1978 L. E. Sissman Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
1977 Robert Lowell Day by Day
1976 Elizabeth Bishop Geography III
1975 John Ashberry Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror

Memoires/autobiografie

2022 Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir
2021 Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
2020 Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
2019 Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir
2018 Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home
2017 Xiaolu Guo, Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
2016 Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
2015 Margo Jefferson, Negroland: A Memoir
2014 Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
2013 Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti
2012 Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies
2011 Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace
2010 Darin Strauss, Half a Life
2009 Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End
2008 Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
2007 Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying
2006 Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
2005 Francine du Plessix Gray Them: A Memoir of Parents

Biografie

2022 Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
2021 Rebecca Donner, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
2020 Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
2019 Josh Levin, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
2018 Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
2017 Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
2016 Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
2015 Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
2014 John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
2013 Leo Damrosch, Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
2012 Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
2011 John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
2010 Sarah Bakewell, How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne
2009 Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life
2008 Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
2007 Tim Jeal Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
2006 Julie Phillips James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
2005 Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2004 Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan De Kooning: An American Master
2003 William Taubman Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
2002 Janet Browne Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II
2001 Adam Sisman Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson
2000 Herbert P. Bix Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
1999 Henry Wiencek The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
1998 Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind
1997 James Tobin Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
1996 Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes
1995 Robert Polito Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
1994 Mikal Gilmore Shot in the Heart
1993 Edmund White Genet
1992 Carol Brightman Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
1991 Philip Roth Patrimony: A True Story
1990 Robert A. Caro Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II
1989 Geoffrey C. Ward A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
1988 Richard Ellman Oscar Wilde
1987 Donald R. Howard Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
1986 Theodore Rosengarten Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
1985 Leon Edel Henry James: A Life
1984 Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
1983 Joyce Johnson Minor Characters

Kritiek (criticism)

2022 Timothy Bewes, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age
2021 Melissa Febos, Girlhood
2020 Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
2019 Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Stories of Social Upheaval
2018 Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
2017 Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
2016 Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
2015 Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
2014 Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz
2013 Franco Moretti, Distant Reading
2012 Marina Warner, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
2011 Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
2010 Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
2009 Eula Biss, Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
2008 Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History
2007 Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
2006 Lawrence Weschler Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
2005 William Logan The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
2004 Patrick Neate Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
2003 Rebecca Solnit River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
2002 William H. Gass Tests of Time
2001 Martin Amis The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
2000 Cynthia Ozick Quarrel & Quandary
1999 Jorge Luis Borges Selected Non-Fictions
1998 Gary Giddins Visions of Jazz: The First Century
1997 Mario Vargas Llosa Making Waves
1996 William H. Gass Finding a Form
1995 Robert Darnton The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
1994 Gerald Early The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
1993 John Dizikes Opera in America: A Cultural History
1992 Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
1991 Lawrence L. Langer Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
1990 Arthur C. Danto Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present
1989 John Clive Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
1988 Clifford Geertz Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
1987 Edwin Denby Dance Writings
1986 Joseph Brodsky Less Than One: Selected Essays
1985 William H. Gass Habitations of the Word: Essays
1984 Robert Hass Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
1983 John Updike Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
1982 Gore Vidal The Second American Revolution and Other Essays
1981 Virgil Thomson A Virgil Thomson Reader
1980 Helen Vendler Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
1979 Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels
1978 Meyer Schapiro Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)
1977 Susan Sontag On Photography
1976 Bruno Bettelheim The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales
1975 Paul Fussell The Great War and Modern Memory