FILE - Nobel laureate in literature Han Kang speaks during the Nobel Banquet in City Hall in Stockholm, Dec. 10, 2024. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP, File)
FILE - 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)
FILE - Nobel laureate in literature Han Kang speaks during the Nobel Banquet in City Hall in Stockholm, Dec. 10, 2024. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP, File)
Christine Olsson
FILE - 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)
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Novels by Nobel laureate Han Kang and Angela Flournoy and a memoir by Arundhati Roy are among the finalists for 好色tv Book Critics Circle awards.
The critics association announced nominees in eight competitive categories and three honorary winners, including the celebrated author-journalist Frances Fitzgerald, who will receive a lifetime achievement award.
鈥淥ut of the many hundreds of titles that our organization carefully considered this year, these singular and striking finalists rose to the top,鈥 NBCC President Adam Dalva said in a statement Tuesday. 鈥淭hey interrogate the lives we lead, broaden our creative and social horizons, move us, and continually surprise us. Especially in this difficult time, every one of these writers and translators deserves to be celebrated -鈥 and to be widely read.鈥
Han's 鈥淲e Do Not Part鈥 (translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris) is a fiction finalist, along with Karen Russell's 鈥淭he Antidote鈥; Katie Kitamura's 鈥淎udition鈥; Solvej Balle's 鈥淥n the Calculation of Volume (Book III),鈥 translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell; and Flournoy's 鈥淭he Wilderness.鈥
Roy is a nominee in autobiography for 鈥淢other Mary Comes to Me,鈥 with other books cited including Geraldine Brooks' 鈥淢emorial Days鈥; Beth Macy's 鈥淧aper Girl鈥; Hanif Kureishi's 鈥淪hattered鈥; and Miriam Toews' 鈥淎 Truce That Is Not Peace.鈥
Finalists in other categories range from Viet Thanh Nguyen's 鈥淭o Save and to Destroy鈥 for criticism to Nicholas Boggs' 鈥淏aldwin: A Love Story鈥 for best first book to Kevin Young's 鈥淣ight Watch鈥 for poetry.