Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews published in English. Below are the 2006 winners. Also avalable: The 2007 NBCC Finalists, as well as submission guidelines, all current and past winners and finalists, >,and a detailed description of how we select titles for the awards.
For more information about the 2006 awards, see our blog series, “The 2006 NBCC Finalists – 30 Books in 30 Days,” for links to reviews and more information, as well as board commentary on each title chosen as a finalst, and online videos of the 2006 NBCC Finalist Readings and Awards Ceremony.
- Fiction:
 - Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Atlantic Monthly Press).
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- Poetry:
 - Troy Jollimore, Tom Thomson in Purgatory (Margie/Intuit House).
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- Biography:
 - Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (St. Martin’s Press).
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- Autobiography:
 - Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (HarperCollins).
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- Criticism:
 Lawrence Weschler, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (McSweeney’s).
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- General Nonfiction:
 - Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Ecco).
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- Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award:
 - John Leonard. Click here for an NBCC citation about Leonard, written by board member Linda Wolfe, and here, for a round up of writing by or about Leonard, here for Studs Terkel’s thoughts on Leonard, and most importantly here for John Leonard’s wonderful NBCC Award acceptance speech.
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- Nona Balakian Citation For Excellence In Writing:
 - Steven G. Kellman. Click here for the NBCC’s introdution to Kellman and his acceptance speech.
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