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The
critics association announced nominees in eight competitive
categories and three honorary winners, including the celebrated
author-journalist Frances Fitzgerald, who will receive a
lifetime achievement award.
“Out of the many hundreds of titles that our organization
carefully considered this year, these singular and striking
finalists rose to the top,” NBCC President Adam Dalva said in a
statement Tuesday. “They interrogate the lives we lead, broaden
our creative and social horizons, move us, and continually
surprise us. Especially in this difficult time, every one of
these writers and translators deserves to be celebrated -– and
to be widely read.”
Han's “We Do Not Part” (translated from the Korean by e. yaewon
and Paige Aniyah Morris) is a fiction finalist, along with Karen
Russell's “The Antidote”; Katie Kitamura's “Audition”; Solvej
Balle's “On the Calculation of Volume (Book III),” translated
from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell; and
Flournoy's “The Wilderness.”
Roy is a nominee in autobiography for “Mother Mary Comes to Me,”
with other books cited including Geraldine Brooks' “Memorial
Days”; Beth Macy's “Paper Girl”; Hanif Kureishi's “Shattered”;
and Miriam Toews' “A Truce That Is Not Peace.”
Finalists in other categories range from Viet Thanh Nguyen's “To
Save and to Destroy” for criticism to Nicholas Boggs' “Baldwin:
A Love Story” for best first book to Kevin Young's “Night Watch”
for poetry.
Winners will be announced March 26.
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