The 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award winners were named at the New School in New York on Thursday night. The winners are:
Fiction
AMERICANAH, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf)
Nonfiction
FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL, Sheri Fink (Crown)
Autobiography
FAREWELL, FRED VOODOO, Amy Wilentz (Simon & Schuster)
Biography
JONATHAN SWIFT, Leo Damrosch (Yale University Press)
Criticism
DISTANT READING, Franco Moretti (Verso)
Poetry
METAPHYSICAL DOG, Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus)