The National Book Critics Circle announced its 2009 award winners yesterday. They are - Fiction: Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (FSG)
- General Nonfiction: Dexter Filkins, The Forever War (Knopf)
- Biography: Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (Knopf)
- Autobiography: Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq (Algonquin)
- Criticism: Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter (University of Chicago Press)
- Poetry: August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (FSG) and Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press)
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