Jo Livingstone and the longtime nonprofit Feminist Press were also honored during the public event as recipients of the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing and the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, respectively. In criticism, Nicole Fleetwood won for “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” which documents the creative lives of currently and formerly incarcerated artists. Tom Zoellner won the nonfiction prize for “Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire,” a riveting account of a Jamaican slave rebellion that led to the British abolition of slavery. In the biography category, Amy Stanley won for “Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World,” an immersive history focused on an unconventional woman in 19th-century Edo, the city that would become Tokyo. Harris for “Here Is the Sweet Hand,” a poetry collection that explores female loneliness, blackness, queerness, pop culture and society at large. The very best of the year, from authors including Natasha Trethewey, Rumaan Alam, Lily King, Douglas Stuart, Raven Leilani and James McBride. Your hardship and spirit will not be in vain. “This is for their families and this is for all of the Asian women, the women in the sex industry, in the service industry, the migrant workers, the factory workers, the mothers and daughters who have come from homelands riven by empire, who have labored and struggled and died in the shadows of American history. “This award is also in memory of the women who died in Atlanta,” she said.
Hong won the prize in autobiography for “Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning,” a book that weaves memoir, history and cultural criticism into an exploration of Asian American identity.ĭuring an emotional acceptance speech, Hong read the names of the eight victims who were killed at three Atlanta-area spas last week. Raven Leilani, Cathy Park Hong and Maggie O’Farrell are among the seven winners of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards, announced Thursday during a virtual awards ceremony by the organization of American book critics. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. The 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards
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