书评家们日前为美国国家图书奖批评家奖列出了一份最后的入围名单。小说奖部分，玛丽琳·罗宾逊（Marilynne Robinson）的《家》（Home）、罗伯托·卜拉诺（Roberto Bolaño）的《2666》（2666）、以及格伦·泰勒（ M. Glenn Taylor）的处女作《特兰奇默·塔加特的歌谣》（The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart）都毫无悬念地进入了小说奖最后的决选名单。此外，波斯尼亚裔美国作家阿列克桑达·荷蒙（Aleksandar Hemon）的小说《拉扎卢斯计划》（The Lazarus Project）和伊丽莎白·斯特劳特（Elizabeth Strout）的《奥利芙·吉特里奇》（Olive Kitteridge）也进入了这份小说奖的决选名单。
而令人感到惊讶的是，此前一直呼声很高的像詹姆斯·伍德（James Wood）的《小说的功能》（How Fiction Works）以及托尼·莫里森（Toni Morrison）的《仁慈》（A Mercy），还有约瑟夫·奥尼尔（Joseph O’Neill）的《尼德兰》（Netherland）则都没有出现在最后的决选名单中。
美国国家图书奖批评家奖的各个奖项的最后获奖者将在3月12日对外公布。
这次在公布进入最后评选的提名名单的同时，美国批评家协会也同时颁发了两个荣誉奖：给国际笔友会美国总部颁发了终身成就奖；给《华盛顿邮报》的书评家荣·查尔斯（Ron Charles）颁发了一份特别批评奖。
附：角逐国家图书奖批评家奖的最后入围名单分类列表
Fiction 【小说类】
Roberto Bolaño, 2666, FSG
Marilynne Robinson, Home, FSG
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, Riverhead
M. Glenn Talyor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, West Virginia University Press
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, Random House
Poetry【诗歌类】
August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City, FSG
Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light, University of Arizona Press
Devin Johnston, Sources, Turtle Point Press
Pierre Martory, trans. by John Ashbery, The Landscapist, Sheep Meadow Press
Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, Copper Canyon PressCriticism【批评类】
Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, Metropolitan Books
Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life, Boston Review/MIT
Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, Doubleday
Reginald Shepherd, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, University of Michigan Press
Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter, University of Chicago Press
Biography【传记类】
Paula J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, Amistad
Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, Penguin Press
Patrick. French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, Knopf
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, Norton
Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, KnopfAutobiography【自传类】
Rick Bass, Why I Came West, Houghton Mifflin
Helene Cooper, The House on Sugar Beach, Simon and Schuster
Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, W.W. Norton
Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven, Harmony Books
Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, Algonquin
Nonfiction【非虚构类】
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, Knopf
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War, Knopf
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Doubleday
Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, Atlantic Monthly Press
George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, Oxford University PressLifetime Achievement Award【终身成就奖】
PEN American CenterNona Balakian Citation【杰出评论奖】
Ron Charles
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美国国家图书奖有设这个奖项？还是分奖？
@jessica
这个奖也是由美国国家图书基金会设立的。通常由900名左右的书评家们来参与评选。该奖始于1974年。国家图书奖始于1950年。2008年的国家图书奖颁给了《影子乡村》（Shadow Country）；而最新公布的2008年国家图书批评家奖颁给了《2666》。