The awards keep rolling in for the late Roberto Bolaño and 2666:
“On Thursday, March 12, 2009, at a crowded ceremony at the New School in New York, the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of its book awards, covering books published in 2008. . . .
“Roberto Bolaño’s monumental 2666 (Farrar, Straus), a tale of love and violence set within the framework of the fictional town of Santa Teresa, Mexico, that’s widely regarded as the late author’s masterpiece, won the fiction award. Fiction committee chair Marcela Valdes called the work ‘a virtuoso accomplishment that ranks with Moby-Dick and Blood Meridian as one of the trenchant and kaleidoscopic examinations of evil in fiction.'”
Other winners included:
- Poetry (co-winners): August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City; Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light
- Criticism: Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
- Biography: Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
- Autobiography: Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
- Nonfiction: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War.
(more @ National Book Critics Circle)
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