Patrick French's account of the life of British writer VS Naipaul, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of VS Naipaul. won the top biography award at the National Book Critics Circle, announed on March 12.Chilean novelist Roberto Bolano won the top fiction prize for his last novel, 2666. Bolano, who in 2003, won on March 12 for the 2008 English-language translation of his 900-page work set in Mexico. It was first published in 2004.
Six winners were picked from books published in the US in the past year. A 24-member board of the group determines the best books in each category. Founded in 1974, the National Book Critics Circle includes nearly 700 reviewers.
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, by Ariel Sabar, was the top autobiography.
August Kleinzahler's Sleeping it off in Rapid City and Juan Felipe Herrera's Half of the World in Light shared the poetry prize.
Seth Lerer's Children Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, won in the criticism category.
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