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Ronan Farrow has already obtained a Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for his reporting on Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo race
January 13, 2020, 1: 01 AM
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NEW YORK — Ronan Farrow has already obtained a Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for his reporting on Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo race. Now he is up for a literary honor, a National E-book Critics Circle award.
Farrow modified into as soon as among the nominees introduced this weekend by the NBCC. His “Acquire and Execute: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Provide protection to Predators,” which tracks his reporting on allegations of sexual harassment and assault in opposition to Weinstein, is a finalist in autobiography. Critics furthermore nominated Chanel Miller’s “Know My Name,” the acclaimed memoir by the girl sexually assaulted by Stanford University student Brock Turner.
The NBCC introduced five nominees in every of six aggressive classes, from fiction to poetry to criticism. Winners will be introduced March 12.
Other finalists encompass Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” and Edwidge Danticat’s “All the pieces Interior” in fiction, Lydia Davis’ “Essays One” for criticism and George Packer’s “Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the Close of the American Century” for biography.
The NBCC introduced three further prizes. Sarah Broom’s memoir “The Yellow Rental,” winner of a National E-book Award for nonfiction last fall, obtained the John Leonard Prize for handiest first e book. The Unique Yorker’s Katy Waldman modified into as soon as awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing and the poet-novelist Naomi Shibab Nye modified into as soon as given the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.
Primarily based in 1974, the NBCC has better than 700 participants from across the country.
