The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious ...

The Nobel Prize in literature has long faced criticism for its focus on European and North American men. Han Kang, the first ...

The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, went to the South ...

Han Kang, author of the 2016 International Booker Prize winner 'The Vegetarian', is only the 9th Asian to win the Literature ...

This photo, provided by Pony Chung Foundation, shows South Korean author Han Kang. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) SEOUL, Oct.

South Korean novelist Han Kang, 53, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her "intense poetic prose" addressing historical ...

The Swedish Academy praised Kang for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of ...

H AN KANG has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation. “The Fruit of My ...

Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by ...

Han Kang is the first South Korean writer to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature, and in its history of 121 winners over ...

Kang, a poet and novelist, was awarded for books, including 'The Vegetarian' and 'Human Acts,' that explore the pain of being ...

The Nobel Committee announced on Thursday that South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.