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Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To South Korean Author Han Kang

Han Kang began her career in 1993 with poetry and later ventured into prose, gaining international fame with The Vegetarian (2007).

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Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To South Korean Author Han Kang

Nobel Prize In Literature Awarded To South Korean Author Han Kang

The Swedish Nobel Prize Academy has announced that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Han Kang, born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea, is a prominent literary figure from the East Asian country whose work combines profound social commentary with a unique artistic and poetic style, as per the citation from the Academy.

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Moving to Seoul at age nine, Kang grew up in a literary family, her father being a renowned novelist. She began her career in 1993 with poetry and later ventured into prose, gaining international fame with The Vegetarian (2007). This novel, which explores themes of bodily autonomy and societal norms, marked her breakthrough on the global stage.

Her subsequent works, including Human Acts (2014) and The White Book (2016), confront historical traumas, such as the Gwangju Massacre and personal loss, using poetic and metaphorical storytelling. Kang’s style often delves into the connections between physical and emotional pain, as seen in Convalescence (2013), where she intertwines themes of existential suffering with the human condition.

Han Kang’s physical empathy for extreme life stories was reinforced by her increasingly charged metaphorical style. Her work had stood out from others by double exposure of pain, a correspondence between mental and physical torment with close connections to Eastern thinking.

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Her latest works, including We Do Not Part (2021), continue to explore inherited trauma, memory, and the fragility of life, establishing her as a vital voice in contemporary literature. Kang’s work remains a compelling examination of the human experience, marked by a deep sensitivity to both history and individual suffering.

 

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