The National Book Critics Circle announced its award winners across eight categories on Thursday evening:
Fiction
My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)
Nonfiction
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham (Avid Reader)
John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Autobiography
Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel (Knopf)
Biography
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper (Penguin Classics)
Criticism
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
Poetry
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (New Directions)
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