Han Kang wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2024
H AN KANG has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation. “The Fruit of My Woman”, a short story, imagines a wife becoming a (withered) houseplant. “The Vegetarian”, a prizewinning novel, depicts a woman consumed by her desire to sprout roots and become a tree.
Han Kang: innovative South Korean author wins the 2024 Nobel prize for literature
Han Kang is the first South Korean writer to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature, and in its history of 121 winners over 117 years, only the 18th woman to be awarded the prize. She was born in 1970 in Gwangju and has also been awarded the International Booker Prize (in 2016),
The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, went to the South ...
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Han Kang's quiet literary revolution: from 'The Vegetarian' to Nobel fameHan Kang, the South Korean author behind unflinching and provocative tales that deftly explore the depths of human violence ...
The Nobel Prize in literature has long faced criticism for its focus on European and North American men. Han Kang, the first ...
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