The finalists for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards had been introduced at this time. The 30 finalists are unfold throughout six classes — which embrace autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, normal nonfiction, and poetry — and had been revealed in 2023.
Also introduced had been two lifetime achievement awards, the NBCC Service Award, finalists for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book, the shortlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the Toni Morrison Achievement Award for establishments, and the winner of the Nona Balakian Citation.
Here are just a few of the finalists for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards:
Autobiography
I Would Meet You Anywhere by Susan Kiyo Ito (The Ohio State University Press)
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto, with paintings by Patricia Wakida, (Red Hen Press)
Rotten Evidence: Reading and Writing in an Egyptian Prison by Ahmed Naji, translated by Katharine Halls (McSweeney’s)
How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair (Simon & Schuster)
Story of a Poem by Matthew Zapruder (Unnamed Press)
Fiction
Tremor by Teju Cole (Random House)
North Woods by Daniel Mason (Random House)
I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore (Knopf)
Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump (Knopf)
Blackouts by Justin Torres (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Poetry
All Souls by Saskia Hamilton (Graywolf Press)
Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi (New Directions)
The Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun (University of Nebraska Press)
Information Desk by Robyn Schiff (Penguin Books)
Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan (Tin House)
Toni Morrison Award
American Library Association
On the Toni Morrison Achievement Award, award chair Jacob M. Appel mentioned, “We honor the ALA for its longstanding commitment to equity, including its twentieth century campaigns against library segregation and for LGBT+ literature, and its perennial stance as a bulwark against those regressive and illiberal supporters of book bans. At a time when our nation’s libraries remain under relentless assault from both political and economic forces, the ALA towers over the literary landscape as a beacon for our most vulnerable voices.”
The award winners might be introduced on March 21, 2024 throughout a ceremony open to the public that might be held at the New School in New York City. For a full record of the finalists, go to the award announcement web page.
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