People browse books by Han Kang, this year's Nobel Prize in Literature winner, at a bookstore in Seoul on Oct. 15, 2024.
Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday, for “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” She is ...
“The White Book” was an International Booker Prize finalist in 2018. “Human Acts” — which Olsson, the Nobel committee chair, called a work of “witness literature” — is based on the ...
South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what ... Lessons,” “Human Acts” and “The White Book,” a poetic novel that draws on the death of ...
Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. She was awarded for books, including “The Vegetarian” and “Human Acts," that explore the ...
“The White Book” was an International Booker Prize finalist in 2018. “Human Acts” — which Olsson, the Nobel committee chair, called a work of “witness literature” — is based on the ...