Book World News Roundup March 10, 2008 - Awards

2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of nearly 700 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns.

The Awards were given at a ceremony on Thursday, March 6, 2008
Here is the complete list of winners in all categories:
Fiction: Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
General Nonfiction: Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Autobiography: Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying
Biography: Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
Criticism: Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Poetry: Mary Jo Bang, Elegy
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Sam Anderson, book critic for New York Magazine
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: Emile Buchwald, founding publisher of Milkweed Editions

Irish Book Award Shortlists Announced
The winners will be announced at Mansion House, Dublin, on 24th April. Please click on the website to see the shortlists in full.

Book of the Year Award finalists announced
ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Awards program was designed to discover distinctive books across a number of genres. These books represent some of the best work coming from today's independent press community.Nearly 1,600 books were entered in 61 categories. These were narrowed to 658 finalists, from 350 publishers.The winners will be determined by a panel of librarians and booksellers, selected from ForeWord's readership. Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners, as well as Editor's Choice Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction will be announced at a special program at BookExpo America at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles on May 29.
Click here to view all finalists