Lorrie Moore has won the prize for fiction and Judy Blume received a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle.
FILE -Judy Blume, author of the 1970 novel"Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret," is interviewed at the premiere of a new film adaptation of the novel, Saturday, April 15, 2023, at the Westwood Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles. Lorrie Moore won the prize for fiction on Thursday, March 21, 2024, while Judy Blume and her longtime ally in the fight against book bans, the American Library Association were given honorary prizes by the National Book Critics Circle.
The American Library Association was given the Toni Morrison Achievement Award, established to honor institutions for their contributions to book culture. The committee said the group had a “longstanding commitment to equity, including its 20th century campaigns against library segregation and for LGBT+ literature, and its perennial stance as a bulwark against those regressive and illiberal supporters of book bans.
Tahir Hamut Izgil won the John Leonard Prize for Best First Book for his “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: : A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide."
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