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

A uthor Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by ...

South Koreans flocked to book stores on Friday and crashed websites in a frenzy to snap up copies of the work of novelist Han ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that ...

Han Kang is the author of novels including Human Acts, Greek Lessons, Your Cold Hands, The Wind Blows, The Vegetarian and ...

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

The Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Han Kang, the renowned novelist and poet. At the ...

Ms. Han is herself a native of Gwangju. Her breakout and best-known novel, 2007’s “The Vegetarian,”details ... a Vietnam ...

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

The Swedish Academy praised Kang for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of ...

Kang is the first Korean writer to win the award. International Writing Program Director Christopher Merrill says several IWP ...