SEOUL -- Nobel laureate Han Kang won the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) prize for fiction, organizers have said.The celebrated South Korean author was named the winner of the prestigious American literary award for "We Do Not Part," her 2021 novel published in English translation in 2024, at the NBCC's annual awards ceremony held in New York on Thursday night (U.S. time).Heather Scott Partington, the NBCC's fiction committee chair, described the book as "a work of blinding melancholy, bleak weather, and murmuring syntax," while onstage before presenting the award."A subtly rendered ske…READ FULL ARTICLE
