US EditionSouth Korea’s Han Kang Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
- Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life" as announced on Oct 10.
- Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee, noted Kang's "unique awareness of the connections between body and soul" and her innovation in contemporary prose.
- Han Kang is the first South Korean to receive this prize, starting her career in 1993 and publishing her first prose collection in 1995.
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Han Kang has avoided the media since this year's Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday. No one, apart from the Swedish Academy, has received a comment from this year's Nobel Prize winner in literature – until now.
Very attached to its international recognition, the country, which conquered the planet with its cinema and K-Pop, welcomed the award to its novelist.
Han Kang: Innovative South Korean author wins the 2024 Nobel prize for literature
It’s often the case that when poets write novels, they deliver arrestingly vivid and nimble prose. Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007) is a case in point, and it is no doubt the work that was most influential in the Swedish Academy’s decision to award her the Nobel prize in literature 2024. The committee stated that Kang was awarded the prestigious prize because her “poetic and experimental style” has made her “an innovator in contemporary prose”. …
South Korean woman granted 2024 Nobel Literature Prize
South Korean author Han Kang has been granted this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Thursday. She was chosen for her novel The Vegetarian, which has already been awarded the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2016, which was also a first for a Korean.
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