The annual National Book Critics Circle Awards were recently held, and the winners were announced for the 2025 publishing year. All the winners of this prestigious award were chosen based on their ability to cover both timely and timeless topics. Authors who were honoured wrote some of the most talked-about books published in the United States over the past year. Let’s dive in to find the full list of authors that got honoured at the ‘National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025’ here!
Arundhati Roy Wins Big At The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025
Indian author Arundhati Roy has emerged as the winner for the autobiography category under the ‘National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025’. She was presented with this award for her book, ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’. Her book narrates an honest story about her complicated relationship with her mother, Mary Roy.
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Full List Of Winners Of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025
Check out the full list of winners for this year’s edition of the ‘National Critics Circle Awards 2025’ here!
Autobiography: Mother Mary Comes to Me, Arundhati Roy
Biography: A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled, Alex Green
Criticism: Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, Quinn Slobodian (Zone Books)
Fiction: We Do Not Part, Han Kang, translated from the Korean by E Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
Nonfiction: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Karen Hao
Poetry: Night Watch, Kevin Young (Knopf)
Barrios Book in Translation Prize: Sad Tiger, Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer
John Leonard Prize: Baldwin: A Love Story, Nicholas Boggs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) (Nonfiction)
NBCC service award: Elizabeth Taylor
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Rhoda Feng
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: Frances FitzGerald
Toni Morrison Achievement Award: PBS and NPR
About The National Book Critics Circle
The National Book Critics Circle of the NBCC was founded back in 1974 at New York’s Algonquin Hotel. People who were behind establishing the NBCC were critics like Ivan Sandrof, Nona Balakian, and John Leonard. The purpose behind starting this organisation was to honour literary excellence when funding for other awards was reduced. From 1974 to 2026, this organisation has come a long way and has honoured several authors over the years for their continuation in the world of literature.
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