Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides, science-technology writer James Gleick and the late historian Manning Marable were among the nominees announced for the National Book Critics Circle awards in the US.
Eugenides was cited for The Marriage Plot, a novel in part about the love of books. It's his first release since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for Middlesex. Other fiction finalists included short story writer Edith Pearlman, whose Binocular Vision was a National Book Award nominee last fall; Alan Hollinghurst's acclaimed The Stranger; Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia and Teju Cole's debut novel Open City.
Five finalists in each of six categories – including non-fiction, biography, autobiography, poetry and criticism - were selected this weekend by the critics circle, founded in 1974.
Winners will be announced on March 8. No cash prizes are given.
