The National Book Critics Circle Awards named winners on Thursday evening:
Autobiography
Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon (Simon & Schuster)
Biography
Jonny Steinberg, Winnie and Nelson (Knopf)
Criticism
Tina Post, Deadpan (NYU Press)
Fiction
Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home (Knopf)
Nonfiction
Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Poetry
Kim Hyesoon, Phantom Pain Wings, translated by Don Mee Choi (New Directions)
Gregg Barrio Book In Translation Prize
Maureen Freely’s translation of Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü (Transit Books)
John Leonard Prize
Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, translated by Joshua L. Freeman (Penguin Press)
NBCC Service Award
Marion Winik
Nona Balakian Citation For Excellence In Reviewing
Becca Rothfeld
Toni Morrison Achievement Award
American Library Association
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
Judy Blume
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