Han Kang wins US National Book Critics Circle Award for 'We Do Not Part'

Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang’s novel “We Do Not Part” won the U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award (NBCC) on Thursday (local time), one of the most prestigious literary honors in the United States. The NBCC announced that Han received the award in the fiction category. The novel, translated by E. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, was published in the United States last year. Speaking about the winning work, the NBCC said the novel is “a work of blinding melancholy, bleak weather, and murmuring syntax. It is a subtly rendered sketch of trauma in the wake of the Jeju Massacre and a rumination on creation and truth amidst loss. This artful novel lingers like an atmospheric and arresting dream.” The award marks another honor for the Korean author following her Nobel Prize win in 2024. Set against the backdrop of one of the darkest chapters in modern Korean history, “We Do Not Part” centers on the 1948 Jeju April 3 Uprising, a protest against U.S. military-led rule that the then-government falsely labeled a communist revolt, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands o

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