The winners of this year's National Book Critics Circle awards are:
Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (Riverhead)
Nonfiction: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington (Doubleday)
Autobiography: Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)
Biography: Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal (Yale University Press)
Poetry: Elegy by Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf)
Criticism: The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (FSG)