Congrats to the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award winners!

The National Book Critics Circle revealed the winners of its 2023 awards last night.

Literary critics and book review editors across the United States are responsible for nominating and voting on the books.

In addition to these judged categories, Becca Rothfeld received the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing; the American Library Association received the Toni Morrison Achievement Award; and Judy Blume received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.

• Autobiography: How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

• Biography: Winnie & Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

• Criticism: Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression by Tina Post

• 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

• Poetry: Phantom Pain Wings, written by Kim Hyesoon and translated by Don Mee Choi

• John Leonard Prize: Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, written by Tahir Hamut Izgil and translated by Joshua L. Freeman

• Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize: Maureen Freely’s translation of Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü 

Also in awards news: Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson has won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.

You can read more about the National Book Critics Circle Award ceremony in The New York Times.