Who is Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature | Profile

Han Kang, renowned South Korean author, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature “for its intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

The winner, in addition to global recognition, He gets a check for 11 million Swedish crowns (more than 20 million pesos).

Who Han Kang?

Hang Kang was born in 1970 in Gwanju, but moved with his family to Seoul at the age of 11. She is a graduate in Korean literature and although She debuted as a poet and became known above all as a storyteller.

In 1994 he won, with his narration red candlethe Seouk Shinmun newspaper award and from that moment on he published several books with stories.

In 2016 he won, along with his English translator, Deborah Smith, the Man Booker International Prize for his first novel, titled The vegetarian.

Another of his novels, White was also among the candidates for the same award and human work won the Malaparte Prize in Italy.

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In The vegetarian The central character, a Korean housewife, begins by becoming a vegetarian, then tries to eliminate all animal products from her life, and ends up dreaming of a life as a plant.

The Literature Prize, like the rest of the Nobel Prizes, is awarded on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the founder of these awards, Alfred Nobel.

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