The winners for the NBCC Awards were announced over the weekend:

Criticism: The Rest is Noise, by Alex Ross
Poetry: Elegy, by Mary Jo Bang
Biography: Stanley, the Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer, by Tim Jeal
General Nonfiction: Medical Apartheid, by Harriet Washington
Autobiography: Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying
Fiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz