The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024 was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang, the Swedish Royal Academy announced at a press conference.
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to her for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and portrays the fragility of human life."
She thus became the first woman from Asia to be awarded this prize for literature and only the second person in general from South Korea to receive any of the Nobel prizes.
So far, she has already won the Booker International Prize in 2016 for her novel "Vegetarian".
Han Kang was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju, before moving with her family to Seoul at the age of nine. He comes from a literary family; her father is a famous novelist. In addition to writing, she devoted herself to art and music, which is visible throughout her literary work.
"Han Kang began her career in 1993, when she published a series of poems in the magazine "Literature and Society". She made her prose debut in 1995 with the short story collection 'Love from Yeosu', and several other prose works soon followed. , both novels and short stories. The novel 2002, which clearly shows Han Kang's interest in art, is a novel that explores human anatomy and the play between persona and experience, where the sculptor's work reveals the conflict between what the body reveals and what it hides. a significant expression", states the statement signed by the president of the Nobel Committee Anders Olson.
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