NBCC Awards finalists announced

In the US, the shortlists for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards have been announced.

The finalists include:

Fiction

• Dr No (Percival Everett, Graywolf)
• A New Name (Jon Fosse, trans by Damion Searls, Transit Books)
• All the Lovers in the Night (Mieko Kawakami,trans by Sam Bett & David Boyd, Europa Editions)
• Bliss Montage: Stories (Ling Ma, FSG)
• The Furrows (Namwali Serpell, Hogarth)

Nonfiction

• The Method: How the twentieth century learned to act (Isaac Butler, Bloomsbury)
• Bad Mexicans: Race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands (Kelly Lytle Hernández, Norton)
• Virology: Essays for the living, the dead, and the small things in between (Joseph Osmundson, Norton)
• Fen, Bog, & Swamp: A short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis (Annie Proulx, Scribner)
• An Immense World: How animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us (Ed Yong, Random House).

Shortlists were also announced in the categories of autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry, as well as for the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. To view the full list of finalists in each category, visit the NBCC website.

The winners will be announced on 23 March.

Category: International news