>Over at Critical Mass, the NBCC Awards were being live-blogged last night, so we all could have been following along as the winners were announced. Check out the finalists, but here are the winners:
FICTION:
Junot Diaz, for The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
Edwidge Danticat, for Brother, I’m Dying
GENERAL NONFICTION:
Harriet A. Washington, for Medical Apartheid
BIOGRAPHY
Tim Jeal, for Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
POETRY
Mary Jo Bang, for Elegy
CRITICISM
Alex Ross, for The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
