An author’s relationship with a transgender artist and a memoir of growing up in an African-American community in Chicago among subjects of books honoured
The winners of the National Books Critics Circle awards for the publishing year 2015 were announced on Thursday evening at the New School in Manhattan.
For fiction, the prize went to Paul Beatty’s Sellout, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Beatty’s book follows an unnamed narrator – referred to in the book only as Me – as he attempts to take a segregation case to the supreme court. The novel received thundering applause from criticis when it was published last year, with particular praise given to Beatty’s wit. In the Guardian, Seth Colter Walls called the book “caustic-but-heartfelt work of satire”.
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