NEW YORK (AP) — Novels by Nobel laureate Han Kang and Angela Flournoy and a memoir by Arundhati Roy are among the finalists for National 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.
“Out of the many hundreds of titles that our organization carefully considered this year, these singular and striking finalists rose to the top,” NBCC President Adam Dalva said in a statement Tuesday. “They 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 -– and to be widely read.”
Han's “We Do Not Part” (translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris) is a fiction finalist, along with Karen Russell's “The Antidote”; Katie Kitamura's “Audition”; Solvej Balle's “On the Calculation of Volume (Book III),” translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell; and Flournoy's “The Wilderness.”
Roy is a nominee in autobiography for “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” with other books cited including Geraldine Brooks' “Memorial Days”; Beth Macy's “Paper Girl”; Hanif Kureishi's “Shattered”; and Miriam Toews' “A Truce That Is Not Peace.”
Finalists in other categories range from Viet Thanh Nguyen's “To Save and to Destroy” for criticism to Nicholas Boggs' “Baldwin: A Love Story” for best first book to Kevin Young's “Night Watch” for poetry.
Winners will be announced March 26.
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)
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks coach Doc Rivers says Kevin Porter Jr. is "not going to play anytime soon” from an oblique strain that made him unavailable for a Wednesday night game with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Rivers didn't specify a potential return date for Porter.
“He's not going to play anytime soon, I can tell you that, but we don't know how long he'll be out,” Rivers said at his pregame availability.
Rivers said he believes the injury happened “three or four games ago.”
“He was playing through it,” Rivers said. “You could see him in the last two or three games grabbing it. They did an MRI yesterday, and it is what it is.”
The 25-year-old Porter has averaged 16.8 points, five rebounds and a team-high 7.4 assists over 28 games this season. He ranks second on the team in scoring.
The 6-foot-5 guard/forward had missed 19 games earlier this season due to ankle and knee injuries. He sprained his left ankle in the Bucks’ season opener, hurt his right knee while working his way back and ended up undergoing surgery for a meniscus tear.
Milwaukee also didn’t have Myles Turner available Wednesday due to a sprained left ankle. Rivers described Turner’s status as day to day.
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Milwaukee Bucks forward Kevin Porter Jr. (7) drives to the basket against Golden State Warriors guard Moses Moody (4) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in San Francisco, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Milwaukee Bucks guard Kevin Porter Jr., third from left, passes the ball as Denver Nuggets guard Peyton Watson, left, center Zeke Nnaji and guard Jalen Pickett defend in the second half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic, left, and Milwaukee Bucks guard Kevin Porter Jr. go after a loose ball during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Milwaukee Bucks guard Kevin Porter Jr. (7) drives against Atlanta Hawks forward Onyeka Okongwu (17) during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
