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NBCC announce their 2014 award winners

Mar 13 2014

The National Book Critics Circle have announced the recipients of their 2014 book awards (for books published in 2013):


Poetry: Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Criticism: Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (Verso)

Autobiography: Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti (Simon & Schuster)

Biography: Leo Damrosch, Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (Yale University Press)

Nonfiction: Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown)

Fiction: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Knopf)

Find more information about four of these winners in BookBrowse's awards section

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