Korean author Han Kang wins Nobel literature reward

STOCKHOLM – The South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her extreme poetic prose that challenges historic injuries and exposes the fragility of human life”, the award-giving body stated on Thursday. The reward is granted by the Swedish Academy and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million). Han Kang, 53, is the veryfirst Asian female Nobel Prize laureate in Literature and the 3rd Korean Nobel Prize laureate. She won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian, a unique about a female’s descent into psychological healthproblem and overlook from her household. The unique was one of the veryfirst of her books to be equated into English. Her 2017 autobiographical unique The White Book centres on the loss of her older sibling, a child who passedaway 2 hours after her birth. In 2023, she released her 4th full-length unique, Greek Lessons. The Atlantic publication called it a book in which “words are both inadequate and too effective to tame”. “She has a special awareness of the connections inbetween body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and speculative design hasactually endedupbeing an innovator in modern prose,” Anders Olsson, chairman of the Academy’s Nobel Committee, stated in a declaration. Han Kang started her profession in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems in the publication Literature and Society, while her prose launching came in 1995 with the brief story collection Love of Yeosu. Born in 1970, she comes from a literary background, her dad being a well-regarded author. “I was able to talk to Han Kang over the phone,” Mats Malm, long-term secretary of the Swedish Academy informed a news conference on Thursday. “She was having an common day, it appears, she had simply completed dinner with her kid,” he stated. ‘The Vegetarian’ In The Vegetarian,
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