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. She made her literary debut as a poet by publishing 5 poems, together with “Winter in Seoul”, within the winter challenge of Munhak-gwa-sahoe (Literature and Society) in 1993. She started her profession as a novelist the following 12 months 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 Lady (2000), Fireplace Salamander (2012); novels comparable to Black Deer (1998), Your Chilly Palms (2002), The Vegetarian (2007), Breath Preventing (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 nicely. 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 Jap considering, the committee stated.
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 dwelling and the useless, and in her poetic and experimental fashion has grow to be an innovator in up to date prose, the Nobel Prize committee stated.