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Thursday, March 28, 2002 NBCC Award Finalists Named The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism. Each year the organization salutes the most accomplished reviewer, from within the membership, with the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. A list of all the nominees can be found here. NBCC Award Winners Fiction Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald (Random House) General Nonfiction Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker (Random House) Biography and Autobiography Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Poetry Saving Lives by Albert Goldbarth (Ohio State University) Criticism The War Against Clich: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 by Martin Amis (Talk Miramax) Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Jason Epstein Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Michael Gorra
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