Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English. Here the titles published by Penguin Random House that are among the NBCC Award winners:
Fiction category:
My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)
Autobiography category:
Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translation by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel (Knopf)
Criticism Category:
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
Winner of the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation:
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translation by Gwendolyn Harper (Penguin Classics)
Winner of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award:Â
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Sandra Cisneros is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, national and international book awards, including the PEN America Literary Award, and the National Medal of Arts. More recently, she received the Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized with the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: the Macondo Foundation and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. As a single woman she made the choice to have books instead of children. A citizen of both the United States and Mexico, Cisneros currently lives in San Miguel de Allende and makes her living by her pen.
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Find the full list of winners here.
