Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel has won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction. I blogged about it here.
Prizes are always nice for authors. And it is always nice when a novel I enjoy wins a prize (this one also won the Booker Prize last year). I thought it was beautifully written and certainly prize-worthy.
On the other hand, 2666 won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle prize. And I just don’t see it. So what do I know?
