Bolaño, Filkins Win Nat’l Book Critics Circle Awards

The late Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, one of this year’s literary sensations, took the fiction prize, while The Forever War, NY Times correspondent Dexter Filkins’s examination of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, took nonfiction honors. In a first, the poetry award was split two ways, between August Kleinzahler and Juan Felipe Herrera.