2008 National Book Critics Circle Awards

THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE announced the finalists for its 2008 awards in New York on Saturday, January 23, 2009. Here is the list of finalists in the fiction and poetry categories:

Fiction
1. 2666 (trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Roberto Bolaño
2. The Lazarus Project (Riverhead, 2008) / Aleksandar Hemon
3. Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Marilynne Robinson
4. Olive Kitteridge (Random House, 2008) / Elizabeth Strout
5. The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart (West Virginia University Press, 2008) / M. Glenn Taylor

Poetry
1. Half the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2008) / Juan Felipe Herrera
2. Sources (Turtle Point Press, 2008) / Devin Johnston
3. Sleeping It Off in Rapid City (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / August Kleinzahler
4. The Landscapist: Selected Poems (trans. from the French by John Ashbery) (The Sheep Meadow Press, 2008) / Pierre Martory
5. Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) / Brenda Shaughnessy