A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian woman to win the Nobel literature prize.
South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang has been awarded the Nobel Prize in for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
“She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead,” Olsson said. Speaking to the Swedish Academy by phone, Han said she had just finished having dinner with her son at home in Seoul when she got a call with the news.“I grew up with Korean literature, which I feel very close ,” said Han, whose father and brother are both novelists. “So I hope this news is nice for Korean literature readers and my friends, writers.”As for celebrating the win, she said: “I’m going to have tea with my son and I’ll celebrate it quietly tonight.
Han made her publishing debut as a poet in 1993; her first short story collection was published in 1995 and her first novel,Her most recent novel, “We Do Not Part,” is due to be published in English next year. It also confronts a chapter in South Korea’s 20th-century history, which saw the country endure war, the division of the Korean peninsula and dictatorship. The novel deals with a 1948-1949 uprising on Jeju, an island south of the Korean mainland in which thousands of people were killed.
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