tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30077451086365218032024-03-21T13:03:52.971-07:00A+ WordsWVRedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01231637015917361495noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3007745108636521803.post-23612039164842913922011-03-15T08:46:00.000-07:002011-03-15T08:46:53.535-07:00The National Book Critics Circle Award 2010<div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The NBCC criteria (taken from the NBCC web site):</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Each year the National Book Critics Circle selects awards in six categories: Fiction, General Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. Members of the Board of Directors nominate books. Each book that is championed by a board member is placed on a master list, from which the finalists (and ultimately the winners) are selected. ... Books published in English (including translations) in the United States with pub dates within 2010 will be considered. For more details read: <a href="http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/how_we_pick_our_awards/">http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/how_we_pick_our_awards/</a></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6fEOoSuxgq4eQg_jthSzQt9XroCMsoqGfAjxkrCLcEUvFErls6mKQcDzN63tTYr4pwBxmEbAc-Jjs943xb5nEQINKJa0zBflEV_pw4ezthShLYLRHfEB349b3Lg5WCLa-xau3-4QNj4/s1600/divider+01.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6fEOoSuxgq4eQg_jthSzQt9XroCMsoqGfAjxkrCLcEUvFErls6mKQcDzN63tTYr4pwBxmEbAc-Jjs943xb5nEQINKJa0zBflEV_pw4ezthShLYLRHfEB349b3Lg5WCLa-xau3-4QNj4/s1600/divider+01.gif" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Fiction</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jennifer </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Egan</span>'s <i>A Visit from the Goon Squad</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (Knopf)</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Biography</span></div><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sarah </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Egan</span>'s <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer</i> (Other Press)</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Criticism</span></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clare </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cavanagh</span>'s<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <i>Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West </i>(Yale University Press)</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Poetry</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">C.D. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wright</span>'s <i>One with Others: [a little book of her days]</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (Copper Canyon)</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">General Nonfiction</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"></div><blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Isabel </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wilkerson</span>'s <i>The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (Random House)</span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Autobiography</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><blockquote><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Darin </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strauss' <i>Half a Life</i> (McSweeney's)</span></blockquote></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award</span></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dalkey Archive Press</span></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing</span></div><blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Parul Sehgal</span></div></blockquote><div style="color: black; font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6fEOoSuxgq4eQg_jthSzQt9XroCMsoqGfAjxkrCLcEUvFErls6mKQcDzN63tTYr4pwBxmEbAc-Jjs943xb5nEQINKJa0zBflEV_pw4ezthShLYLRHfEB349b3Lg5WCLa-xau3-4QNj4/s1600/divider+01.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm6fEOoSuxgq4eQg_jthSzQt9XroCMsoqGfAjxkrCLcEUvFErls6mKQcDzN63tTYr4pwBxmEbAc-Jjs943xb5nEQINKJa0zBflEV_pw4ezthShLYLRHfEB349b3Lg5WCLa-xau3-4QNj4/s1600/divider+01.gif" /></a></div><br />
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">"A celebration of the best of British publishing"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>TESCO Biography Of The Year</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The Fry Chronicles </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">by Stephen Fry (Penguin Group)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=apluswords-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B0042JTA56&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Plenty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">by Yotam Ottolenghi (Random House)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=apluswords-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0091933684&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The Hare with Amber Eyes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">by Edmund de Waal (Random House)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=apluswords-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0374105979&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br />
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<tr><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b>MORE4 Non-Fiction Book Of The Year</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The Making Of Modern Britain </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">by Andrew Marr (Pan Macmillan)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=apluswords-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0330510991&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">One Day </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">by David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=apluswords-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0307474712&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Wolf Hall </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">by Hilary Mantel (Harper Collins)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=apluswords-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B002YUJ9PG&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Freedom </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">by Jonathan Franzen (Harper Collins)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=apluswords-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=0312600844&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Zog </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler (Scholastic)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"><iframe align="left" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=apluswords-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=1407115561&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="height: 245px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px; width: 131px;"></iframe><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Terry Pratchett</span></div></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"></td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Martin Amis</span></div></td><td style="border: medium none; padding-left: 7px; padding-right: 7px;"></td></tr>
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