Alexandra Alter, New York Times Service

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National Book Critics Circle names 2020 award winners

Novel that imagines the death of Shakespeare’s 11-year-old son Hamnet wins top prize

Author Maggie O'Farrell poses for the media at the Costa book awards in London on Jan. 25, 2011. O'Farrell's "Hamnet," an imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son from the bubonic plague, has won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction.

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