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NBCC 2011 Award Winners (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post     First Posted: 03/11/11 08:05 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 07:35 PM ET

The 2011 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards Ceremony was held last night at 6:00 PM at The New School in Manhattan. The finalists were announced January 22.

Here are the winners for each category:
Fiction: "A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
Nonfiction: "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration" by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Biography: "How To Live: Or, A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer" by Sarah Bakewell (Other Press)
Autobiography: "Half a Life" by Darin Strauss (McSweeney’s)
Poetry: "One with Others: [a little book of her days]" by C. D. Wright (Copper Canyon)
Criticism: "Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West" by Clare Cavanagh (Yale Univ.)

To see notable wins from the past 35 years, click here.

See a slideshow of this year's finalists:

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The 2011 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards Ceremony was held last night at 6:00 PM at The New School in Manhattan. The finalists were announced January 22. Here are the winners for each c...
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11:04 AM on 03/11/2011
Skippy Dies is a beautiful book! Also an added bonus if you're familiar with Irish private schools - it is loosely based around Blackrock College Dublin.
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