Book Critics Circle awards Flournoy Arundhati.

Novels by Nobel laureate Han Kang and Angela Flournoy, along with a memoir by Arundhati Roy, are finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards. The critics association announced nominees in eight competitive categories and three honorary winners. Celebrated author-journalist Frances Fitzgerald will receive a lifetime achievement award. On Tuesday, NBCC President Adam Dalva praised the finalists for broadening creative and social horizons. Han’s “We Do Not Part” is a fiction finalist. Roy is nominated in autobiography for “Mother Mary Comes to Me.” Winners will be announced on March 26.