The National Book Critics Circle Awards will be held on March 12th with a finalists’ reading the night before, both at the New School University. If you’re available and planning to be in New York on those dates, make sure to attend. In addition to the 2014 finalists on Monday, their agents and editors, you may get a… Read more.
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Chimamanda Adichie Wins 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award
Chimamanda Adichie’s third novel Americanah took top fiction honors at tonight’s National Book Critics Circle Award, beating out Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch which has been a near-unanimous hit, dominating most “Best of 2013” lists. Adichie’s book, which examined race from the perspective of a Nigerian hair blogger, also edged out Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the… Read more.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Donna Tartt Among 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists
On Monday, the National Book Critics Circle announced 30 finalists for their 2014 awards ceremony on March 13, 2014 at 6p which is free to attend and open to the public. The list includes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s Americanah, Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being which also earned a spot on the Man Booker shortlist, and… Read more.
Zadie Smith Named Among 2012 National Book Critics Circle Finalists
The 2012 National Book Critics Circle Finalists have been announced and Zadie Smith is among the esteemed group of 30 writers including legendary Kenyan scribe Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and National Book Award Winner Katherine Boo. Click over to Publishers Weekly for the full list of literary contenders.
Katherine Boo Won NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award
Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers has added the New York Public Library‘s 2013 Helen Bernstein Book Award to the list of prestigious prizes and accolades it has received. The non-fiction title about the lives of residents in the poor Indian neighborhood of Annawadi just outside Mumbai airport earned the 2012 National Book Award, was honored… Read more.
Ben Fountain, Andrew Solomon, Leanne Shapton Win National Book Critics Awards
The National Book Critics Circle has picked the winners of their 2012 awards out of a field of nominees that included legendary authors, marquee bestsellers, and niche scribes. Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was NBCC’s top Fiction pick, beating out Zadie Smith’s NW, while Andrew Solomon’s Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the… Read more.
2016 Miles Morland Winners Announced
And the Winners are: *Abdul Adan – Somalia *Ayesha Harruna Attah – Ghana *Lidudumalingani Mqombothi – South Africa *Nneoma Ike-Njoku – Nigeria — The fourth annual Miles Morland Scholarship for African writers has announced an impressive shortlist: *Abdul Adan – Somalia (Shortlisted for the 2016 Caine Prize; Founding member of the Jalada collective) *Jekwu Anyaegbuna – Nigeria (Shortlisted for the 2012… Read more.
The Long Game
My favorite nugget in New York Magazine editor Boris Kachka’s recent piece “How the Tiny Graywolf Press Became a Big Player” is this excerpt about the strategy behind author Eula Biss‘ rise: Before she won multiple awards and wrote one of the Times Book Review’s top-ten books of 2014, the young poet Eula Biss tried to sell a… Read more.
Adichie & Flanagan Up for Impac Dublin Award
Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Man Booker Prizewinning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, which earned the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, have been named to the shortlist for the 2015 Impac Dublin Literary Award. Rounding out the list (whittled down from a longlist of 142 titles): Mahi Binebine’s Horses of… Read more.
Louise Erdrich Has Won the Library of Congress Prize
Louise Erdrich, author of 14 novels including the National Book Award-winner The Round House and National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Love Medicine, was named the recipient of the 2015 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. She’ll receive the award at the 2015 National Book Festival in Washington, DC this September. In an email to… Read more.
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