Finalists for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle awards were announced today at Artists Space in New York.
Among this year’s presenters were recent NBCC finalists and winners Jennifer Egan (fiction), Siddhartha Mukherjee (nonfiction), Elif Batuman (criticism), Kathleen Graber (poetry), Yunte Huang (biography), Darin Strauss (autobiography), and Parul Sehgal (Nona Balakian Citation).
Fiction
- Stone Arabia: A Novel by Dana Spiotta
- Open City: A Novel by Teju Cole
- The Marriage Plot: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
- Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman
Nonfiction
- Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
- Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
- A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
Criticism
- Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos
- Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer
- The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem
- Karaoke Culture: Essays by Dubravka Ugresic by
- Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music by Ellen Willis
Poetry
- Devotions by Bruce Smith
- The Chameleon Couch by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Kingdom Animalia by Aracelis Girmay
- Core Samples From the World by Forrest Gander
- Space, In Chains by Laura Kasischke
Autobiography
- One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman
- The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók
- Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
- It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by
- Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth
Biography
- Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution by Mary Gabriel
- George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
- Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
- Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Robert Silvers of the New York Review of Books.
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing goes to Kathryn Schulz.
This year’s winners will be announced on Thursday, March 8, at 6:00 p.m. at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium in New York.
