Han Kang's Nobel Prize was a surprise to many in South Korea. Here's what you need to know about 'her intense poetic prose ...
The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her ...
The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, went to the South ...
H AN KANG has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation. “The Fruit of My ...
The citation commended Han Kang's "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human ...
Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by ...
By Alex Marshall and Alexandra Alter Han Kang, the South Korean author best known for her surreal, subversive novel “The Vegetarian,” was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday ...
Han’s 2007 novel The Vegetarian, her first novel to be ... Since 1901, the Nobel Prize for Literature prize has been awarded to an author from any country who has, according to Nobel’s will ...
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 Vegetarian,” in which the protagonist ... “Korea has been holding out for a Nobel Prize in Literature for decades, so this win has already gotten a massive response here,” Paige ...
Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense ... The South Korean author is known for works such as The Vegetarian—which won the International Booker prize ...