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Consisting of 12 essays and poems, Light and Thread is Han’s first book since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 2024.

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The Nobel prize in literature was last week awarded to 53-year-old South Korean novelist Han Kang, who is the first writer from South Korea to receive the Nobel prize.

Her best known novel, The Vegetarian (published in Korea in 2007), was her first to be translated into English, in 2015. It won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, with the prize split ...

Han Kang is the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her work explores mourning, loss and connection, its subjects ranging from family brutality to national uprisings.

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Nobel Prize in Literature winner Han Kang is a courageous, gifted, global writer Rónán Hession: The Vegetarian is highly original, a good place to start for anyone new to her writing ...

The prize for literature is awarded for an author’s full body of work, not a specific text. Like all those awarded the Nobel Prize, Kang has won 11m krona ($1.1 million) for the prize.

Han won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for a novel she’d written over a decade earlier. "The Vegetarian" was first published in South Korea in 2007 based on her 1997 short story "The ...

Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Han Kang The South Korean writer, best known internationally for her novel “The Vegetarian,” was honored for her “intense” prose confronting history ...

Photo by Sergei Gapon/Anadolu via Getty Images The first of six 2024 Nobel Prizes was announced yesterday (Oct. 7), with a pair of U.S. scientists receiving the prize for physiology or medicine.