Friday, March 07, 2008

And the winner is . . .

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

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