Valeria Luiselli, Ta-Nehisi Coates en Mary Beard genomineerd voor The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2015

Dit zijn alle genomineerden per categorie:

Autobiografie:

• Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World
• Vivian Gornick, The Odd Woman and the City
• George Hodgman, Bettyville
• Margo Jefferson, Negroland
• Helen Macdonald, H Is for Hawk

Biografie:

• Terry Alford, Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
• Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
• T.J. Stiles, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
• Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
• Karin Wieland, Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

Fictie:

• Paul Beatty, The Sellout
• Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
• Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth
• Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
• Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Kritiek:

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
• Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
• Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
• Colm Tóibín, On Elizabeth Bishop
• James Wood, The Nearest Thing to Life

Non-fictie:

• Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Rome
• Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
• Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
• Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic
• Brian Seibert, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

Poëzie:

• Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude
• Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn
• Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things
• Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax and Selected Poems
• Frank Stanford, What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford

De juryleden van The National Book Critics Circle Awards bestaan uit literatuurcritici en redacteuren. Op 17 maart worden de winnaars bekendgemaakt.