{"id":51763,"date":"2026-03-30T15:50:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/51763\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:50:55","slug":"us-book-critics-honor-nobel-laureate-and-south-korean-novelist-han-kang-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/51763\/","title":{"rendered":"US book critics honor Nobel laureate and South Korean novelist Han Kang"},"content":{"rendered":"

By AUDREY McAVOY<\/p>\n

A novel by Nobel laureate Han Kang<\/a>, Karen Hao\u2019s examination of artificial intelligence and OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) and a memoir by the author Arundhati Roy were among the winners Thursday of the annual National Book Critics Circle<\/a> awards.<\/p>\n

Han\u2019s \u201cWe Do Not Part,\u201d translated by e.yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, addresses a 1948-1949 uprising on Jeju, an island south of the Korean mainland, in which thousands of people were killed.<\/p>\n

Heather Scott Partington, who chaired the awards\u2019 fiction committee, described the novel as \u201ca work of blinding melancholy, bleak weather, and murmuring syntax\u201d and said it \u201clingers like an atmospheric and arresting dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lifetime achievement award went to author and journalist Frances FitzGerald, whose 1972 \u201cFire in the Lake\u201d<\/a> was an early and prescient take on the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

NPR and PBS were presented with the achievement award honoring institutions that have made significant contributions to book culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when some question the value of public, service-minded media, we salute PBS and NPR for all you have done for both book culture and American democracy,\u201d said Jacob M. Appel, who chaired the selection process for the award.<\/p>\n

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FILE \u2013 Writer and activist Arundhati Roy participates in a protest at the press club of India in New Delhi, India, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo\/Altaf Qadri, File)\n<\/p>\n

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FILE \u2013 Author Frances FitzGerald attends the 68th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street Nov. 15, 2017, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP, File)\n<\/p>\n

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FILE \u2013 Writer and activist Arundhati Roy participates in a protest at the press club of India in New Delhi, India, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo\/Altaf Qadri, File)\n<\/p>\n

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Winners of other categories:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Hao\u2019s \u201cEmpire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI\u201d won for nonfiction.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Roy\u2019s \u201cMother Mary Comes to Me\u201d won for autobiography.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Alex Green\u2019s \u201cA Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America\u2019s Disabled\u201d won for biography.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kevin Young\u2019s \u201cNight Watch\u201d won for poetry.<\/p>\n

\u2014 \u201cSad Tiger\u201d by Neige Sinno and translated by Natasha Lehrer won the translation prize honoring both the author and translator.<\/p>\n

The National Book Critics Circle was founded in New York in 1974 and consists of more than 850 critics and editors. Its annual awards<\/a> honor the best books published in the past year in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By AUDREY McAVOY A novel by Nobel laureate Han Kang, Karen Hao\u2019s examination of artificial intelligence and OpenAI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[28651,28650,131,132],"class_list":["post-51763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-book-awards","tag-national-book-critics-circle","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116318927924694215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}