Nobel laureate Han Kang's first nonfiction book in English to be released next spring

FILE - South Korean author Han Kang speaks to the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, on May 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Han Kang's “We Do Not Part,” Megha Majumdar's “A Guardian and a Thief” and Yiyun Li's “ Things in Nature Merely Grow” are among the finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals, fiction and nonfiction awards presented by the American Library Association.

“A Guardian and a Thief,” already and a nominee for the ɫtv Book Award and Kirkus Prize, is among three Carnegie fiction finalists and the only one written originally in English. Kang's novel was translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. Argentine writer Agustina Bazterrica's “The Unworthy” was translated from Spanish by Sarah Moses.

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