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 price 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. She made her literary debut as a poet by publishing 5 poems, together with “Winter in Seoul”, within the winter concern of Munhak-gwa-sahoe (Literature and Society) in 1993. She started her profession as a novelist the subsequent yr by profitable the 1994 Seoul Shinmun Spring Literary Contest with “Crimson Anchor”. She printed her first brief story assortment entitled Yeosu (Munji Publishing Firm) in 1995. She participated within the College of Iowa Worldwide Writing Program for 3 months in 1998 with assist from the Arts Council Korea.
Her publications embrace a brief story assortment, Fruits of My Girl (2000), Hearth Salamander (2012); novels comparable to Black Deer (1998), Your Chilly Fingers (2002), The Vegetarian (2007), Breath Combating (2010), and Greek Classes (2011), Human Acts (2014), The White E-book (2016), I Do Not Bid Farewell(2021). A poem assortment, I Put The Night within the Drawer (2013) was printed as effectively. Han Kang gained the Worldwide Booker Prize in 2016 for ‘The Vegetarian’.
Her most up-to-date novel ‘I Do Not Bid Farewell’ was awarded the Medicis prize in France in 2023, the Emile Guimet prize in 2024.
Han Kang’s work is characterised by this double publicity of ache, a correspondence between psychological and bodily torment with shut connections to Japanese considering, 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 novel consciousness of the connections between physique and soul, the dwelling and the lifeless, and in her poetic and experimental fashion has turn out to be an innovator in modern prose, the Nobel Prize committee mentioned.