Associated Press STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s martial law announcement in her home country. Han was awarded by the Nobel committee “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” She spoke to journalists at a news conference in Stockholm on Friday after days of political turmoil back…

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Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, is shocked by recent events in South Korea

South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s martial law announcement in her home country. Han was awarded by the Nobel committee “for her intense poetic prose…

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South Korean author Han Kang, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, said Friday that she was shocked by this week's martial law announcement in her home country.

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In Stockholm, where she will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, the author declared that she felt “shocked” by the facts, as they revive a fictionalized situation in her novel “Human Acts”

En Estocolmo, donde recibirá el premio Nobel de Literatura, la autora declaró haberse sentido “shockeada” por los hechos, pues reviven una situación ficcionalizada en su novela “Actos humanos”

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Nobel Literature Prize winner Han Kang talks about how writing connects her to readers

She was a child when South Korea was ruled by a brutal dictatorship more than 40 years ago.

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South Korean Nobel Prize winner Han Kang deeply shocked by political turmoil at home

STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke passionately on Saturday about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all the way back to when she was 8 years old.

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“Like everyone else that night (on Dec. 3), I was in a state of shock. While writing ‘Human Acts,’ I spent a lot of time researching the events leading up to the emergency martial law of 1979, but it felt like a bombshell to witness a similar situation unfold before my own eyes in 2024,” reflected Han Kang, this year’s Nobel Prize laureate in literature, addressing a room full of international journalists at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Fri…

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Nobel laureate Han Kang reflects on Korea's martial law 'bombshell'

Han Kang directly addressed the political unrest in South Korea at his press conference in Stockholm. - Like many other South Koreans, I have been shocked by the events of the last few days in my home country, she says.

Han Kang tog direkt upp de politiska oroligheterna i Sydkorea vid sin presskonferens i Stockholm. – Som många andra sydkoreaner har jag chockats av de senaste dagarnas händelser i mitt hemland, säger hon.

Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, is shocked by recent events in South Korea

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