Here Are The 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

This year’s winners in each category are:

• Fiction: I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore 
• Nonfiction: We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian 
• Biography: Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage  by Jonny Steinberg
• Autobiography: How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair 
• Poetry: Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi
• Criticism: Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression by Tina Post 

Additional awards were handed out by the group as well. They included:

• The John Leonard Prize for best debut: Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil, translated by Joshua L. Freeman
• The Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: Judy Blume
• The Toni Morrison Achievement Award: The American Library Association
• The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, which honors both the book’s author and translator: Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü and translated by Maureen Freely.