Two members of the Korean diaspora have been awarded prestigious National Book Awards. 

The National Book Foundation announced the winners of the 71st National Book Awards in a ceremony aired live on YouTube on Wednesday.  

The foundation awarded the prize for translated literature to Korean-Japanese novelist Yu Miri for her novel, “Tokyo Ueno Station.” The novel depicts the aspects of modern Japan through the eyes of a ghost who visits a park where he lived when he was homeless. 

Korean-American poet and translator Don Mee Choi won the poetry award for “DMZ Colony,” which is a collection of poems themed around Korea’s Demilitarized Zone.  

The National Book Awards are given out in five categories - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People’s Literature.