The NBCC Awards were handed out last night in New York City.  The winners were:

  • Criticism: Alex Ross - The Rest is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century (excerpt)
  • Poetry: Mary Jo Bang - Elegy
  • Biography: Tim Jeal - Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (excerpt)
  • General Non-Fiction: Harriet Washington - Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (excerpt)
  • Autobiography: Edwidge Danticat - Brother, I’m Dying (excerpt)
  • Fiction: Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (excerpt)

I’m starting to feel pretty good about betting on Oscar Wao to go all the way in The Tournament of Books.