2023 NBCC Award Winners Announced

The winners of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced past nighttime astatine the New School. Books published successful English successful 2022 were eligible to triumph successful six categories — Nonfiction, Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry and Criticism. Additionally, the champion archetypal publication won the John Leonard Prize award, and this twelvemonth is the archetypal clip the champion publication translated into English of immoderate genre won the Gregg Barrios Book successful Translation Prize.

The archetypal NBCC Awards were granted successful 1976 with the purpose to item fantabulous penning and commencement a speech that centered reading, criticism, and literature. Winners are chosen from nominations received from the astir 800 authors, critics, publishers, and others who are NBCC members. The NBCC grants the lone literate awards of this size that are chosen by critics.

John Leonard Prize

Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty  (Tin House)

Gregg Barrios Book successful Translation

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov translated by Boris Dralyuk (Deep Vellum)

Joy Harjo received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, City Lights the Toni Morrison Achievement Award, and Barbara Hoffert the NBCC Service Award. For much information, sojourn NBCC.

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