Somewhere around the first quarter of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, the protagonist Yeong-hye describes her breasts as harmless, unlike the “weaponized” parts of her body: her hands, her gaze ...

Han Kang, Whose ‘The Vegetarian’ Was Made Into a Film, Wins Nobel Prize for Literature. The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of ...

Han Kang speaks to the media after winning the Man Booker International prize for fiction for her book "The Vegetarian'" in London, on May, 16, 2016. Ms. Han won the Nobel Prize for Literature Oct ...

Somewhere around the first quarter of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, the protagonist Yeong-hye describes her breasts as harmless, unlike the “weaponized” parts of her body: her hands, her gaze ...

In 2016, the South Korean novelist Han Kang won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, the first of her novels to ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang, 53, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her "intense poetic prose" addressing historical trauma and human fragility. Known for The Vegetarian, which won the 2016 ...

The citation commended Han Kang's "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." She won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian in 2016.

Han Kang, the South Korean author best known for her surreal, subversive novel “The Vegetarian,” was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday — the first writer from her country to ...

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 ...

After Han Kang won the Prize in Literature last month, a stage version of her novel “The Vegetarian” sold out its run at a struggling Paris theater. Skip to content Skip to site index.