Manning Marable up for U.S. critics award

Novelist Jeffrey Eugenides and the late historian Manning Marable are among the nominees for the US National Book Critics Circle awards.

Eugenides is nominated for The Marriage Plot, the tale of three students caught in a love triangle, which opens on the day of their graduation.

Marable, meanwhile, is shortlisted in the biography category for his revelatory history of Malcolm X.

The winners will be announced on 8 March. No cash prize is given....