The National Book Critics Circle announced 2008’s award winners on Thursday:
Fiction: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, trans. by Natasha Wimmer (FSG)
Poetry: Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler (FSG) and Half the World in Light by Juan Felipe Herrera (U of Arizona Pr)
Criticism: Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer (U of Chicago Pr)
Biography: The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French (Knopf)
Autobiography: My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar (Algonquin)
Nonfiction: The Forever War by Dexter Filkins (Knopf)
