THE ICEBERG by Marion Coutts is nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award
Congratulations to Marion Coutts, who has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir THE ICEBERG (UK: Atlantic Books; US: Grove Atlantic).
THE ICEBERG was longlisted for the Guardian First Book award, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Costa Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. It was the winner of The Wellcome Book Prize 2015. Published to rave reviews in the UK, The New York Times recently said of the book: ‘[its] truth is so pure and compressed, as though Coutts has condensed the coal of her experience into a diamond. Encountering it is like a near-death experience, at once traumatic and profoundly, permanently illuminating.’
The National Book Critics Circle prizes will be awarded on the 16th March 2017 at a ceremony at the New School in New York City.