NBCC Announces Book Award Nominees
Posted on February 27, 2002
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) has announced the nominees for its annual book awards. The awards ceremony will be on Monday, March 11, 2002, at Tishman Auditorium, New York University Law School, 40 Washington Square South at 6:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. A reception follows directly at the law school's Greenberg Lounge, across from the auditorium, and costs $40.
The Nominees
Fiction
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (Knopf)
- Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (HarperCollins)
- W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (Random House)
- Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days (Doubleday)
- Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Random House)
- Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (Pantheon)
- Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Princeton University)
- Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Random House)
- Sam Roberts, The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair (Random House)
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Poetry
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Criticism
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Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- Michael Gorra
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.
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