The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, went to the South ...

Amid nationwide elation over South Korean novelist Han Kang being awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature, one of her ...

Interest in Han Kang, the first South Korean author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, has surged internationally.

Han Kang, the South Korean author behind unflinching and provocative tales that deftly explore the depths of human violence ...

The Nobel Prize in literature has long faced criticism for its focus on European and North American men. Han Kang, the first ...

It’s often the case that when poets write novels, they deliver arrestingly vivid and nimble prose. Han Kang’s The Vegetarian ...

H AN KANG has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation. “The Fruit of My ...

The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious award. By Alex Marshall and Alexandra Alter Han Kang, the South Korean ...

The citation commended Han Kang's "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize ... She was awarded for books, including “The Vegetarian” and “Human Acts,” that explore the pain ...

“Han Kang uses this historical base in a very special ... In 2015, Deborah Smith’s English translation of The Vegetarian propelled Han to the international stage. As Ankhi Mukherjee, a ...

Han Kang's work explores historical traumas and human fragility First South Korean to win Nobel literature prize Novel 'The Vegetarian' was major international breakthrough 'I'll celebrate quietly ...