The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious ...
A uthor Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by ...
The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, went to the South ...
The Nobel Prize in literature has long faced criticism for its focus on European and North American men. Han Kang, the first ...
H AN KANG has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation. “The Fruit of My ...
A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian ...
Han Kang is the first South Korean writer to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature, and in its history of 121 winners over ...
Best known for "The Vegetarian," the novelist and poet was praised for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life" ...
Han Kang is the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her work explores mourning, loss and ...
Nobel committee chairman Anders Olsson praised Han's "physical empathy for the vulnerable, often female lives" of her characters.