The NBCC announced the winners of their 2021 awards Thursday night, with Merve Emre receiving the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing; Percival Everett receiving the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award; and the Cave Canem Foundation receiving the Toni Morrison Achievement Award. The individual book awards were given to:
Fiction
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Harper)
Nonfiction
Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed (Little, Brown)
John Leonard Prize
Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties (Ecco)
Autobiography
Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar (Little, Brown)
Biography
Rebecca Donner, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days (Little, Brown)
Criticism
Melissa Febos, Girlhood (Bloomsbury)
Poetry
Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets (Graywolf)
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