Milestones

AWARDED. HA JIN, 49, Chinese-American novelist; the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, given to the best novel or short story by an American author, for War Trash , the tale of a Chinese soldier captured by Americans during the Korean War; in Washington, D.C. Ha Jin previously won the award for his 2000 novel Waiting , and becomes only the third writer after Philip Roth and John Edgar Wideman to win the prize twice in its 25-year history.

RELEASED. JIANG YANYONG, 73, Chinese military surgeon whose 2003 open letter to the government exposed a cover-up of the sars epidemic; from house arrest;...