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The National Book Critics Circle gave out its annual awards at a ceremony in New York City on March 12. There was an unprecedented tie for the poetry award. They and the other book awards follow:
Fiction: Roberto Bolaño, for 2666
General Nonfiction: Dexter Filkins, for The Forever War
Biography: Patrick French, for The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
Autobiography: Ariel Sabar, for My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Poetry: August Kleinzahler, for Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, and Juan Felipe Herrera, for Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems

Labels: National Book Critics Circle Awards