Premio del Círculo de Críticos Nacional del Libro

El Premio del Círculo de Críticos Nacional del Libro o en inglés el National Book Critics Circle Award es un galardón que entrega el Círculo de Críticos Nacional del Libro (NBCC) para promover los mejores libros y revistas publicada en inglés^[1]​.

Premio del Círculo de Críticos Nacional del Libro
Premio a	libros y revistas en inglés.
Otorgado por	Círculo de Críticos Nacional del Libro
Ubicación	Estados Unidos
Historia
Primera entrega	1975
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Se otorgan en seis categorías: Ficción, No Ficción, Poesía, Autobiografía, Biografía, y Crítica. Estos premios no son entregados a títulos publicados en inglés, como nuevas versiones de textos antiguos. Hay libros que no son considerados en estas categorías, como los de cocina, de autoayuda (incluso literatura inspiracional), de referencia, de imágenes o infantiles. Sin embargo, los títulos a ser galardonados pueden ser traducciones, historias cortas o colecciones de ensayos, o cualquier título que pueda entrar en las categorías mencionadas.

Ganadores del 2022

Ficción

• Ling Ma - Bliss Montage: Stories

No Ficción

• Isaac Butler - The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

Autobiografía

• Hua Hsu - Stay True: A Memoir

Biografía

• Beverly Gage - G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Poesía

• Cynthia Cruz - Hotel Oblivion

Crítica

• Timothy Bewes - Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age

Premio John Leonard

• Morgan Talty - Night of the Living Rez

Premio Gregg Barrios a libro traducido

• Andrey Kurkov traducido del ruso por Boris Dralyuk - Grey Bees

Mención de Nona Balakian por excelencia en la revisión

• Jennifer Wilson

Premio a la Trayectoria Ivan Sandrof

• Joy Harjo

Premio al Logro Toni Morrison

• City Lights

Premio al servicio NBCC

• Barbara Hoffert

Ganadores del 2021

Ficción

• - The Love Songs of W.E.B DuBois

No Ficción

• - How the Word Is Passed

Autobiografía

• Jeremy Atherton Lin - Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Biografía

• Rebecca Donner - All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Poesía

• - frank: sonnets

Crítica

• - Girlhood

Premio John Leonard

• - Afterparties

Mención de Nona Balakian por excelencia en la revisión

Premio a la Trayectoria Ivan Sandrof

• Percival Everett

Premio al Logro Toni Morrison

Ganadores del 2019

Ficción

• Edwidge Danticat - Everything Inside

No Ficción

• Patrick Radden Keefe - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Autobiografía

• Chanel Miller - Know My Name: A Memoir

Biografía

• Josh Levin - The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

Poesía

• Morgan Parker - Magical Negro

Crítica

• Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Premio John Leonard

• Sarah M. Broom - The Yellow House: A Memoir

Mención de Nona Balakian por excelencia en la revisión

• Katy Waldman

Finalistas y ganadores del 2008

Los premiados (en negrita) fueron anunciados el 12 de marzo del 2009.

Ficción

• Roberto Bolaño, 2666. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, (Riverhead)
• Marilynne Robinson, Home, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, (Random House)
• , The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (West Virginia University Press)

No Ficción

• Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, (Knopf)
• , The Forever War, (Knopf)
• , From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776. (Oxford University Press)
• Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, (Atlantic)
• Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, (Doubleday)

Autobiografía

• Rick Bass, Why I Came West, (Houghton Mifflin)
• , The House on Sugar Beach, (Simon and Schuster)
• , The Bishop’s Daughter, (W.W. Norton)
• , The Eaves of Heaven, (Harmony Books)
• , My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, (Algonquin)

Biografía

• , The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, (Penguin Press)
• , The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, (Knopf)
• , Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, (Amistad)
• , The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, (Norton)
• , White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Knopf)

Poesía

• , Half the World in Light, (University of Arizona Press)
• , Sources, (Turtle Point Press)
• , Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist, (Sheep Meadow Press)
• , Human Dark with Sugar, (Copper Canyon Press)

Crítica

• Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, (Metropolitan Books)
• , The Men in My Life. (Boston Review/MIT)
• , Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, (Doubleday)
• , Children’s Literature: A Readers’ History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter, (University of Chicago Press)
• , Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, (University of Michigan Press)

Mención Nona Balakian por estudio excelente

• Laila Lalami

Premio Ivan Sandrof por una trayectoria de logros

Finalistas y ganadores de 2007

Los premiados (en negrita) fueron anunciados el 6 de marzo del 2008.

Ficción

• Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games (HarperCollins)
• Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead)
• Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (Dial Press)
• Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter (Ecco)
• Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher (Simon and Schuster)

No Ficción

• Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang)
• Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press)
• Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday)
• Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday)
• Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne BKs/St. Martin’s)

Autobiografía

• Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press)
• Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf)
• Joyce Carol Oates, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco)
• Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso)
• Anna Politkóvskaya, Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia (Random House)

Biografía

• Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press)
• Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton (Knopf)
• Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison (Knopf)
• John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Knopf)
• Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)

Poesía

• Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf)
• Matthea Harvey, Modern Life (Graywolf)
• Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking (Flood)
• Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood)
• Tadeusz Różewicz, New Poems (Archipelago)

Crítica

• Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon)
• Julia Álvarez, Once Upon a Quniceanera (Viking)
• Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream (Metropolitan/Holt)
• Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Mención Nona Balakian por estudio excelente

• Brooke Allen
• Sam Anderson, crítica de libro a New York magazine
• Ron Charles
• Walter Kirn
• Adam Kirsch

Premio Ivan Sandrof por una trayectoria de logros

• Emilie Buchwald, escritor, editor, and fundador de Milkweed Editions en Minneapolis

Ficción

2017
2016	Louise Erdrich
2015	Paul Beatty	El vendido
2014	Marilynne Robinson
2013	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Americanah
2012		Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2011
2010	Jennifer Egan	A Visit from the Goon Squad
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall
2008	Roberto Bolaño	2666
2007	Junot Díaz	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss
2005	E.L. Doctorow	La gran marcha
2004	Marilynne Robinson	Gilead
2003	Edward P. Jones	El mundo conocido
2002	Ian McEwan	Expiación
2001	W.G. Sebald	Austerlitz
2000	Jim Crace
1999	Jonathan Lethem	Motherless Brooklyn
1998	Alice Munro
1997	Penelope Fitzgerald
1996
1995
1994	Carol Shields
1993
1992	Cormac McCarthy	Todos los hermosos caballos
1991	Jane Smiley	A Thousand Acres
1990	John Updike
1989	E.L. Doctorow	Billy Bathgate
1988	Bharati Mukherjee
1987	Philip Roth	La contravida
1986	Reynolds Price
1985	Anne Tyler	The Accidental Tourist
1984	Louise Erdrich
1983	William Kennedy	Ironweed
1982		George Mills
1981	John Updike
1980	Shirley Hazzard	El tránsito de Venus
1979
1978	John Cheever
1977	Toni Morrison
1976	John Gardner
1975	E.L. Doctorow

No ficción

2014		The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
2013		Five Days At Memorial: Life And Death In A Storm-Ravaged Hospital
2012	Andrew Solomon	Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
2011		Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War
2010	Isabel Wilkerson	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
2009	Richard Holmes	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
2008		The Forever War
2007		Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
2006	Simon Schama
2005	Svetlana Aleksiévich	Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
2004	Diarmaid MacCulloch
2003		Sons of Mississippi
2002	Samantha Power
2001		Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
2000		Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
1999		Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
1998	Philip Gourevitch
1997
1996	Jonathan Raban	Bad Land: An American Romance
1995		A Civil Action
1994	Lynn H. Nicholas	: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
1993	Alan Lomax	The Land Where the Blues Began
1992
1991	Susan Faludi
1990		The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
1989	Michael Dorris	The Broken Cord
1988		Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63,
1987		The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1986	John W. Dower	War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
1985		Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
1984	Freeman Dyson	Weapons and Hope
1983		The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
1982	Robert Caro
1981	Stephen Jay Gould	The Mismeasure of Man
1980		Walter Lippmann and the American Century
1979	Telford Taylor	Munich: The Price of Peace
1978		Facts of Life
1977	Walter Jackson Bate	Samuel Johnson
1976	Maxine Hong Kingston
1975		Edith Wharton: A Biography

Autobiografía

2014		Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
2013		Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti
2012		Swimming Studies
2011		The Memory Palace
2010	Darin Strauss	Half a Life
2009	Diana Athill	Somewhere Towards the End
2008		My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
2007	Edwidge Danticat
2006	Daniel Mendelsohn
2005		Them: A Memoir of Parents

Biografía

2014		Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
2013		Jonathan Swift: His Life And His World
2012	Robert A. Caro	The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
2011		George F. Kennan: An American Life
2010		How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
2009		Cheever: A Life
2008		The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
2007		Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
2006		James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
2005	y	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Biografía/Autobiografía (discontinuado)

2004	y	De Kooning: An American Master
2003		Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
2002	Janet Browne	Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II
2001		Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson
2000		Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
1999		The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
1998	Sylvia Nasar
1997		Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
1996	Frank McCourt	Angela's Ashes
1995		Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
1994		Shot in the Heart
1993	Edmund White	Genet
1992		Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
1991	Philip Roth	Patrimonio: una historia verdadera
1990	Robert A. Caro
1989		A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
1988		Oscar Wilde
1987		Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
1986		Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
1985	Leon Edel	Henry James: A Life
1984	Joseph Frank	Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
1983	Joyce Johnson	Minor Characters

Poesía

2014	Claudia Rankine	Citizen: An American Lyric
2013	Frank Bidart	Metaphysical Dog
2012		Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
2011	Laura Kasischke	Space, in Chains
2010		One with Others
2009		Versed
2008		Half the World in Light
2008		Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
2007	Mary Jo Bang	Elegy
2006		Tom Thomson in Purgatory
2005		Refusing Heaven
2004	Adrienne Rich	The School Among the Ruins
2003		Columbarium
2002		Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
2001		Saving Lives
2000		Carolina Ghost Woods
1999	Ruth Stone	Ordinary Words
1998	Marie Ponsot	The Bird Catcher
1997		Black Zodiac
1996	Robert Hass	Sun Under Wood
1995		Time and Money
1994		Rider
1993		My Alexandria
1992		Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
1991		Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
1990		Bitter Angel
1989		Transparent Gestures
1988		That One Day
1987		Flesh and Blood
1986		Wild Gratitude
1985	Louise Glück	The Triumph of Achilles
1984	Sharon Olds	The Dead and the Living
1983
1982		Antarctic Traveler
1981		A Coast of Trees
1980		Sunrise
1979		Ashes: Poems New and Old y 7 Years From Somewhere
1978		Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
1977	Robert Lowell	Day by Day
1976	Elizabeth Bishop	Geography III
1975		Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror

Crítica

2014	Ellen Willis	The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz
2013		Distant Reading
2012	Marina Warner	Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
2011	Geoff Dyer	Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
2010		Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
2009		Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays
2008		Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
2007	Alex Ross	The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
2006	Lawrence Weschler	Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
2005		The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
2004		Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
2003	Rebecca Solnit	River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
2002	William H. Gass	Tests of Time
2001	Martin Amis	The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
2000	Cynthia Ozick	Quarrel & Quandary
1999	Jorge Luis Borges	Selected Non-Fictions
1998		Visions of Jazz: The First Century
1997	Mario Vargas Llosa	Making Waves
1996	William H. Gass	Finding a Form
1995	Robert Darnton	The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
1994		The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
1993		Opera in America: A Cultural History
1992
1991		Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
1990	Arthur C. Danto	Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present
1989		Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
1988	Clifford Geertz	Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
1987		Dance Writings
1986	Joseph Brodsky	Less Than One: Selected Essays
1985	William H. Gass	Habitations of the Word: Essays
1984	Robert Hass	Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
1983	John Updike	Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
1982	Gore Vidal	The Second American Revolution and Other Essays
1981	Virgil Thomson	A Virgil Thomson Reader
1980	Helen Vendler	Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
1979	Elaine Pagels	The Gnostic Gospels
1978	Meyer Schapiro	Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)
1977	Susan Sontag
1976	Bruno Bettelheim	The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales
1975	Paul Fussell	The Great War and Modern Memory

Mención Nona Balakian por estudio excelente

• 2014:
• 2013:
• 2012:
• 2011: Kathryn Schulz
• 2010:
• 2009:
• 2008:
• 2007: (New York magazine).
• 2006:
• 2005: , de Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, The New Republic
• 2004: , de The New York Times Book Review y Poetry Magazine
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• 2000: Daniel Mendelsohn
• 1999:
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• 1997:
• 1996:
• 1995:
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• 1993:
• 1992: Elizabeth Ward
• 1991:

Premio Iván Sandrof por una trayectoria de logros

(Los años que faltan son años en los que no se concedió este premio.)

• 2014: Toni Morrison
• 2013: Rolando Hinojosa-Smith
• 2012: Sandra Gilbert y Susan Gubar
• 2011:
• 2010:
• 2009: Joyce Carol Oates
• 2008:
• 2007:
• 2006:
• 2005:
• 2004: Jr.
• 2003: Studs Terkel
• 2002: Richard Howard
• 2001:
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• 1999: Lawrence Ferlinghetti y Pauline Kael
• 1997: Leslie Fiedler
• 1996:
• 1995: y Elizabeth Hardwick
• 1994: , Jr.
• 1990:
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• 1987:
• 1984:
• 1982:

Referencias

1. «About». National Book Critics Circle (en inglés estadounidense). Consultado el 11 de mayo de 2022. 

• Datos: Q1505018
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