South Korean author Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been presented to Han Kang, a South Korean author, Kazinform News Agency reports.
Born November 27, 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea, Han Kang resides in Seoul.
She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University and debuted as a poet in 1993. A year later, she began her career of a novelist. Her first collection of short stories entitled Yeosu was published in 1995.
Her publications include a short story collection, Fruits of My Woman (2000), Fire Salamander (2012); novels such as Black Deer (1998), Your Cold Hands (2002), The Vegetarian (2007), Breath Fighting (2010), and Greek Lessons (2011), Human Acts (2014), The White Book (2016), I Do Not Bid Farewell (2021) and a collection of poems I Put the Evening in the Drawer (2013).
The novel Vegetarian was her first work translated into English. It won the 2016 International Booker Prize. Atti umani (Human Acts) won the 2017 Malaparte Prize in Italy. She was awarded San Clemete Prize for The Vegetarian in Spain (2019) and was selected as the fifth writer for the Future Library project in Norway in 2019.
According to the Nobel Committee, she was awarded the prize “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
"She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose,” the Committee explains.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 117 times to 121 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2024. And only 18 of them are women. Four prizes were shared between multiple laureates.
