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A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian ...

Major South Korean bookstores sold out of author Han Kang's books yesterday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of ...

While Han Kang’s victory was celebrated as a crowning cultural achievement for her country, her work also represents a form ...

Han Kang, South Korea's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was slow to global acclaim, getting her first big ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han ...

Major South Korean bookstores sold out of author Han Kang's books Friday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of local ...

Han Kang is the first South Korean writer to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature, and in its history of 121 winners over 117 years, only the 18th woman to be awarded the prize. She was born in ...

Novelist Han Kang has made history by becoming the first Asian woman and first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy awarded her the prestigious prize for her “intense ...

A reader takes a photo of works by Korean writer Han Kang at a local bookstore after the author's Nobel Prize win on Oct. 11, ...