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Winner in the autobiography category, Navalny's ”Patriot," which
came out eight months after he died in prison, was a blunt and
improbably optimistic account of his years of oppression and
confinement. Alfred A. Knopf publisher Jordan Pavlin accepted
the award on his behalf, telling hundreds gathered at the New
School Auditorium in Manhattan that ‘’it was very difficult to
conceive of a leader as committed to his country, his people and
ideals as Navalny was."
Her voice sometimes halting with emotion, Pavlin called his book
“uncannily relevant to America in 2025.”
Winners of the other categories:
— Matar's contrasting narratives of three Libyans living in
London won for fiction, with finalists including Percival
Everett's “James,” winner of the National Book Award and the
Kirkus Prize.
— Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and
Disaster on the Edge of Space” won for nonfiction.
— Carson's collection “Wrong Norma” won poetry.
— Cynthia Carr’s “Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar" won
for biography
— Hanif Abdurraqib's “There’s Always This Year: On Basketball
and Ascension” won for criticism
— Pedro Lemebel's “A Last Supper of Queer Apostles,” translated
from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper, won for a work in
translation.
— Tessa Hulls' “Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir” won the John
Leonard Prize for best debut book. Leonard, a renowned critic
who died in 2008, helped found the NBCC in 1974.
Honorary awards were presented to “The House On Mango Street”
author Sandra Cisneros, the Black-owned publisher Third World
Press, critic Lauren Michele Jackson and author-educator Lori
Lynn Turner. Maxine Hong Kingston, whose classic “The Woman
Warrior” received an NBCC award in 1977, was a keynote speaker.
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