Here are the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards.

Tonight the National Book Critics Circle announced the recipients of its book awards for publishing year 2025. As NBCC President Adam Dalva declared in his opening remarks, this year’s NBCC Awards are marked by a moment when “the very concept of the free press is under attack. And yet here we are, defiantly carrying on the NBCC’s mission: to seek the right for our members, and for critics around the world, to think freely. To never be afraid to voice their opinions, even in these turbulent times.”

Here are the winners:

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me (Scribner)

BIOGRAPHY

Alex Green, A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled (Bellevue Literary Press)

CRITICISM

Quinn Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Zone Books)

FICTION

Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, We Do Not Part (Hogarth)

NONFICTION

Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI (Penguin Press)

POETRY

Kevin Young, Night Watch (Knopf)

BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE

Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer, Sad Tiger (Seven Stories) (Nonfiction)

JOHN LEONARD PRIZE

Nicholas Boggs, Baldwin: A Love Story (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