South Korean author Han Kang, was awarded 2024 the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historic traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is value 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million).
Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1970. She comes from a literary background, her father being a reputed novelist. Han Kang started her profession in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems in a South Korean journal. Her prose debut got here in 1995 with the quick story assortment.
Han Kang’s work is characterised by this double publicity of ache, a correspondence between psychological and bodily torment with shut connections to Jap pondering, the committee mentioned.
Han Kang confronts historic traumas and invisible units of guidelines and, in every of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a singular consciousness of the connections between physique and soul, the residing and the lifeless, and in her poetic and experimental model has turn into an innovator in up to date prose, the Nobel Prize committee mentioned.