Anunciado os finalistas do National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024

O National Book Critics Circle anunciou os 30 finalistas das seis categorias do prêmio National Book Critics Circle Awards 2024, que reconhece livros do ano editorial de 2023. Também foram anunciados os finalistas do John Leonard Prize for Best First Book e do Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, juntamente com os vencedores da Nona Balakian Citation.

Os vencedores serão anunciados durante uma cerimônia na New School, em Manhattan, no dia 21 de março. Os finalistas e vencedores anunciados são os seguintes:

Autobiografia

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir by Susan Kiyo Ito (Ohio State University Press)

Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm by David Mas Masumoto, with artwork 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: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair (Simon & Schuster)

Story of a Poem: A Memoir by Matthew Zapruder (Unnamed Press)

Biografia

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich (Ecco)

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang (Liveright)

Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disruptor by Rachel Shteir (Yale University Press)

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg (Knopf)

Crítica

The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Nicholas Dames (Princeton University Press)

Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba (Avid Reader Press)

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace E. Lavery (Princeton University Press)

Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression by Tina Post (NYU Press)

Ficção

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)

Ficção

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley (Knopf)

Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet (W. W. Norton)

Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri (Catapult Books)

Poesia

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)

Prêmio Greg Barrios Book in Translation (Tradução)

The Last Pomegranate Tree by Bachtyar Ali and translated by Kareem Abdulrahman (Archipelago Books)

Owlish by Dorothy Tse and translated by Natascha Bruce (Graywolf Press)

Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon and translated by Don Mee Choi (New Directions)

Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril by Azo Vauguy and translated by Todd Fredson (Action Books)

Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü and translated by Maureen Freely (Transit Books)

Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu and Translated by Tiffany Tsao (Feminist Press)

Prêmio John Leonard

Black Pastoral by Ariana Benson (University of Georgia Press)

A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography by Emilie Boone (Duke University Press)

The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer, translated by James Young (New Directions)

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: a Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman (Penguin Press)

When Crack Was King by Donovan X. Ramsey (One World)

Judgment and Mercy: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs by Martin J. Siegel (Cornell University Press)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing (Excelência em Revisão)

Becca Rothfeld

Toni Morrison Achievement Award

Associação Americana de Bibliotecas

NBCC Service Award

Marion Winik

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

Judy Blume

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