2015 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
In 2015, Ross Gay was awarded the poetry prize for "Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude", a community orchardist's praise song for the natural world. He also won the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize.
| Fiction: | The Sellout, Paul Beatty (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
| General Nonfiction: | Dreamland: The True Story of America?s Opiate Epidemic, Sam Quinones (Bloomsbury) |
| Biography: | Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley, Charlotte Gordon (Random House) |
| Autobiography: | Negroland, Margo Jefferson (Pantheon) |
| Poetry: | Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay (University of Pittsburgh Press) |
| Criticism: | The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (Graywolf) |
| Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: | Wendell Berry |
| Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: | Carlos Lozada |
| John Leonard Prize: | Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas (W.W. Norton) |
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