Han River, the first Korea Bell Literature Award in Korea, added another award.Selected works by the National Book Critics Association

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Han Kang, the first Korean winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, won the National Book Critics Association (NBCC) Award for Fiction.

NBCC officially announced on the 26th (local time) that it has selected Han Kang's novel "We Do Not Part" as the final winner in the fiction category.

The NBCC Award, established in 1976, is considered one of the most prestigious literary awards in the United States, along with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Among the books published in English in the United States last year, the best works in six fields, including novels, poems and criticism, will be selected and awarded.

This is the second time that a Korean writer has won an NBCC award. Previously, poet Kim Hye-soon received the Poetry Prize in 2024 for her English translation of the poetry collection "Wing Fantastic Tong."

Meanwhile, Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October last year for the first time as an Asian woman writer and the first Korean to win the prize.

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