Han Kang won the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) prize for fiction with "We Do Not Part," further cementing her place among literature's most vital voices following her 2024 winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The celebrated South Korean author was named the winner of the prestigious American literary award for the 2021 novel published in English translation in 2024, at the NBCC's annual awards ceremony held in New York on Thursday night (U.S. time). Heather Scott Partington, the NBCC'