Winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last night during a ceremony, fundraiser and finalists reading. This year's NBCC Award recipents are:
Autobiography: Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin (Little, Brown)
Biography: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner (Little, Brown)
Criticism: Girlhood by Melissa Febos (Bloomsbury)
Fiction: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper)
Nonfiction: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith (Little, Brown)
Poetry: frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss (Graywolf)
John Leonard Prize: Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (Ecco)
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Merve Emre
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: Percival Everett
Toni Morrison Achievement Award: Cave Canem Foundation
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Winners of the 2022 Golden Kite Awards and honor books, presented to children's book authors and artists by their peers and sponsored by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, have been named. Golden Kite recipients receive a cash prize of $2,500 plus $1,000 to donate to a nonprofit of their choice. Golden Kite Honor recipients receive $500 plus $250 to be donate. This year's winning titles are:
Golden Kite Award Winners
Illustrated Book for Older Readers: Samira Surfs by Fahmida Azim (Kokila)
Middle Grade Fiction: Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca (Quill Tree Books)
Picture Book Text: Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho, illustrated by Dung Ho (Harper Collins Books for Young Readers)
Nonfiction Text for Younger Readers: The Great Stink: How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem by Colleen Paeff, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Margaret K. McElderry Books)
Picture Book Illustration: King of Ragtime: The Story of Scott Joplin by Stephen Costanza (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Nonfiction Book for Older Readers (co-winners): A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome by Ariel Henley (FSG Books for Young Readers); and Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer (Levine Querido)
Young Adult: When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris (Quill Tree Books)
Golden Kite Honor Books
Illustrated Book for Older Readers: Genius Under the Table by Eugene Yelchin (Candlewick Press)
Middle Grade Fiction: Cuba in My Pocket by Adrianna Cuevas (FSG Books for Young Readers)
Picture Book Text: Soul Food Sunday by Winsome Bingham, illustrated by C.G. Esperanza (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Nonfiction Text for Younger Readers: The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson, illustrated by Evan Turk (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
Picture Book Illustration: Wonder Walkers by Micha Archer (Nancy Paulsen Books)
Young Adult: Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi (G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers)
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Riaz Phillips won the £2,000 (about $2,605) Jane Grigson Trust Award, which recognizes "a first-time writer of a book about food or drink which has been commissioned but not yet published," for West Winds.
Chair of judges and outgoing chair of the Jane Grigson Trust Geraldene Holt said: “Riaz brings his fresh, honest insight into the food culture of Jamaica and West Winds deserves the widest possible audience." Sarit Packer, one of the judges, commented: "I loved the connection Riaz makes between ingredients and cooking and as someone who is a child of immigrants, I identify with the feeling of being in limbo in both worlds, which comes across strongly in Riaz’'s writing."
The two runners up were Air and Love by Or Rosenboim and Rambutan by Cynthia Shanmugalingam.