National Book Critics Circle Award
Le National Book Critics Circle Award est un prix annuel décerné par le National Book Critics Circle (en) (NBCC), pour promouvoir les meilleurs livres et revues publiés en anglais.
Les prix se répartissent en six grandes catégories: romans et nouvelles, poésie, mémoires/autobiographie, biographie, et critique.
2008 finalistes et gagnants
Les lauréats 2008 ont été annoncés le (les noms des gagnants sont en gras)[1].
Fiction
- Roberto Bolaño, 2666. (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, (Riverhead)
- Marilynne Robinson, Home, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
- Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, (Random House)
- M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (West Virginia University Press)
Ouvrages généraux
- Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, (Knopf)
- Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, (Knopf)
- George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776. (Oxford University Press)
- Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, (Atlantic)
- Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, (Doubleday)
Autobiographie
- Rick Bass, Why I Came West, (Houghton Mifflin)
- Helene Cooper, The House on Sugar Beach, (Simon and Schuster)
- Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, (W.W. Norton)
- Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven, (Harmony Books)
- Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, (Algonquin)
Biographie
- Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, (Penguin Press)
- Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, (Knopf)
- Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, (Amistad)
- Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, (Norton)
- Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Knopf)
Poésie
- Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light, (University of Arizona Press)[2]
- Devin Johnston, Sources, (Turtle Point Press)
- August Kleinzahler, Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)[2]
- Pierre Martony (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist, (Sheep Meadow Press)
- Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, (Copper Canyon Press)
Critique
- Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, (Metropolitan Books)
- Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life. (Boston Review/MIT)
- Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, (Doubleday)
- Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, (University of Chicago Press)
- Reginald Shepard, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, (University of Michigan Press)
La Nona Balakian Citation d'excellence pour l'examen
- Michael Antman
- Ron Charles
- Kathryn Harrison
- Laila Lalami
- Todd Shy
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- PEN American Center[3]
2007 finalistes et gagnants
En 2007, les lauréats (en gras) ont été annoncés le , 2008[4],[5].
Fiction
- Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games (HarperCollins)
- Junot Díaz, La Brève et Merveilleuse Vie d'Oscar Wao (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) (Riverhead)
- Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (Dial Press)
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter (Ecco)
- Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher (Simon and Schuster)
Ouvrages généraux
- Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang)
- Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press)
- Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present' (Doubleday)
- Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday)
- Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne BKs/St. Martin’s)
Autobiographie
- Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press)
- Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco)
- Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso)
- Anna Politkovskaya, Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia (Random House)
Biographie
- Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press)
- Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton (Knopf)
- Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison (Knopf)
- John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 (Knopf)
- Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)
Poésie
- Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf)
- Matthea Harvey, Modern Life (Graywolf)
- Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking (Flood)
- Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood)
- Tadeusz Różewicz, New Poems (Archipelago)
Critiques
- Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon)
- Julia Alvarez, Once Upon a Quinceañera (Viking)
- Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream (Metropolitan/Holt)
- Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
La Nona Balakian Citation d'excellence pour l'examen
- Brooke Allen
- Sam Anderson, critique littéraire du New York magazine
- Ron Charles
- Walter Kirn
- Adam Kirsch
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
- Emilie Buchwald, écrivain, éditeur, fondateur et éditeur des Editions Asclépiade, à Minneapolis.
Fiction
Ouvrages généraux
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: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution |
2005 | Svetlana Alexievitch | 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 (en) |
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 |
Mémoire / Autobiographie
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 |
Biographie
2013 | Leo Damrosch | Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World |
2012 | Robert 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 |
Biographie / Autobiographie (interrompus)
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 | Les Cendres d'Angela |
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 | Patrimoine : Une histoire vraie |
1990 | Robert Caro | Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II (en) |
1989 | Geoffrey C. Ward | A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt |
1988 | Richard Ellmann | 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 |
Poésie
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[2] |
2008 | August Kleinzahler | Sleeping it Off in Rapid City[2] |
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 Ashbery | Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror |
Critique
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 Readers’ History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter |
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 |
Ivan Setrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Ce prix a également été présenté comme le Prix Setrof Ivan pour l'ensemble des réalisations de l'édition et Ivan Setrof Award, Contribution à l'American Arts & Lettres.
- 2013: Roleto Hinojosa-Smith
- 2012: Setra Gilbert et Susan Gubar
- 2011: Robert Silvers, éditeur de la New York Review of Books
- 2010: Dalkey Archive Press
- 2009: Joyce Carol Oates
- 2008: PEN American Center[3]
- 2007: Emilie Buchwald, cofondateur de Milkweed Editions publishing house
- 2006: John Leonard
- 2005: Bill Henderson, fondateur de Pushcart Press
- 2004: Louis D. Rubin, Jr., fondateur de Algonquin Press et auteur et éditeur de plus de 50 livres
- 2003: Studs Terkel
- 2002: Richard Howard
- 2001: Jason Epstein
- 2000: Barney Rosset
- 1999: Lawrence Ferlinghetti et Pauline Kael
- 1997: Leslie Fiedler
- 1996: Albert Murray
- 1995: Alfred Kazin et Elizabeth Hardwick
- 1994: William Maxwell
- 1990: Donald Keene
- 1989: James Laughlin
- 1987: Robert Giroux
- 1984: The Library of America
- 1982: Leslie A. Marchet
Nona Balakian Citation d'excellence pour l'examen
- 2013, Katherine A. Powers contributeur de nombreuses rubriques littéraires dont au Boston Globe et Washington Post.
- 2012: William Deresiewicz (en), contributeur du The Nation et The American Scholar
- 2011: Kathryn Schulz, critique au New York magazine
- 2010: Parul Sehgal du Publishers Weekly
- 2009: Joan Acocella du The New Yorker
- 2008: Ron Charles du The Washington Post
- 2007: Sam Anderson du New York magazine
- 2006: Steven G. Kellman
- 2005: Wyatt Mason, collaborateur de Harper's, The New Yorker, The New Republic
- 2004: David Orr, collaborateur de The New York Times Book Review and Poetry
- 2003: Scott McLemee
- 2002: Maureen N. McLane
- 2001: Michael Gorra
- 2000: Daniel Mendelsohn
- 1999: Benjamin Schwarz
- 1998: Albert Mobilio
- 1997: Thomas Mallon
- 1996: Dennis Drabelle
- 1995: Laurie Stone
- 1994: JoAnn C. Gutin
- 1993: Brigitte Frase
- 1992: Elizabeth Ward
- 1991: George Scialabba
Références
- (en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « National_Book Critics Circle Award » (voir la liste des auteurs).
- Roberto Bolano's `2666' wins book critics prize, AP, March 13, 2009
- For the first time in the awards history, two books were awarded the prize for the same category: Poetry, 2008
- PEN American Center Receives the NBCC’s Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award
- (en) « The National Book Critics Circle Award », National Book Critics Circle, undated (consulté le )
- (en) « The 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists », Critical Mass: The Blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors, (consulté le )
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