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2021

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which book has received the National Book Critics Circle award 2020 under the fiction category?
A
Here Is the Sweet Hand
B
Hamnet
C
Island on Fire
D
Stranger in the Shoguns City
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Among them are Douglas Stuart, for 2020 Booker Prize winner “Shuggie Bain, ” and National Book Award finalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s “The Undocumented Americans.” Among the NBCC finalists for fiction, only one, Randal Kenan’s “If I Had Two Wings, ” was also a National Book Award nominee.

Detailed explanation-2: -The National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, established in 1976, is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote “the finest books and reviews published in English."

Detailed explanation-3: -Starting with the 2022 publishing year, the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize will honor the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States. The prize recognizes books for their excellence and artistry. The prize will judge the translated English-language book as a work itself.

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