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NBCC Finalists

February 1, 2023
By Erin Somers

The National Book Critics Circle announced finalists for its 2022 prizes. This year marks the introduction of the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, celebrating “the artistic merit of literature in translation in any genre.”

Fiction
Percival Everett, Dr. No (Graywolf)
Jon Fosse, A New Name, trans. by Damion Searls (Transit Books)
Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night, trans. by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Europa Editions)
Ling Ma, Bliss Montage (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Namwali Serpell, The Furrows (Hogarth)

Nonfiction
Isaac Butler, The Method (Bloomsbury)
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans (Norton)
Joseph Osmundson, Virology (Norton)
Annie Proulx, Fen, Bog, & Swamp (Scribner)
Ed Yong, An Immense World (Random House)

John Leonard Prize
Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers (S&S/Marysue Rucci Books)
Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch (Knopf)
Zain Khalid, Brother Alive (Grove)
Maud Newton, Ancestor Trouble (Random House)
Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez (Tin House)
Vauhini Vara, The Immortal King Rao (Norton)

Autobiography
Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra (Two Lines Press)
Hua Hsu, Stay True (Doubleday)
Dorthe Nors, A Line in the World, trans. by Caroline Waight (Graywolf)
Darryl Pinckney, Come Back in September (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds (Doubleday)

Biography
Beverly Gage, G-Man (Viking)
Kerri K. Greenidge, The Grimkes (Liveright)
Jennifer Homans, Mr. B (Random House)
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, Metaphysical Animals (Doubleday)
Aaron Sachs, Up from the Depths (Princeton University Press)

Criticism
Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Timothy Bewes, Free Indirect (Columbia University Press)
Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story (NYRB)
Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System (Pantheon)
Alia Trabucco Zerán, When Women Kill, trans. by Sophie Hughes (Coffee House Press)

Poetry
Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (City Lights)
Cynthia Cruz, Hotel Oblivion (Four Way)
David Hernandez, Hello I Must Be Going (Pitt)
Paul Hlava Ceballos, banana [ ] (Pitt)
Bernadette Mayer, Milkweed Smithereens (New Directions)

Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
Boris Dralyuk’s translation of Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov (Deep Vellum)
Jennifer Croft’s translation of The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead Books)
Fady Joudah’s translation of You Can Be the Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat (Milkweed Editions)
Mara Faye Lethem’s translation of When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (Graywolf Press)
Christina MacSweeney’s translation of Linea Nigra by Jazmina Barrera (Two Lines Press)
Mark Polizzotti’s translation of Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga (Archipelago)

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