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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Audrey McAvoy

US book critics honor Nobel laureate and South Korean novelist Han Kang

Britain-Women's Book Prize - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A novel by Nobel laureate Han Kang, Karen Hao's examination of artificial intelligence and OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) and a memoir by the author Arundhati Roy were among the winners Thursday of the annual National Book Critics Circle awards.

Han's "We Do Not Part,” translated by e.yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris, addresses a 1948-1949 uprising on Jeju, an island south of the Korean mainland, in which thousands of people were killed.

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