This is what novelist Han Kang, the 2024 Nobel laureate in literature ... and give a speech during the banquet that follows. Wearing a black dress, Han started her speech by recalling an ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang (L, front) , winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, poses for a photo at the Nobel Prize banquet in the City Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on Dec. 10, 2024.

When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature in October last year, her books flew off the shelves, and South Korea’s publishing industry saw a rare surge. But within a month, the momentum had ...

A TV screen shows an image of the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, South Korean writer Han Kang, during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Oct. 10, 2024 ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...

Han Kang in 2016. Ms. Han, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, has written books about two of South Korea’s darkest moments.Credit...Jean Chung for The New York Times Han Kang ...

South Korean author Han Kang has been granted this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Thursday. She was chosen for her novel The Vegetarian ...

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an accident in Seoul, asks her friend Kyungha to travel to her home on ...

SEOUL: South Korean author Han Kang (pic) has won this year's Nobel Prize in literature, becoming the first South Korean to be honoured with one of the world's most prestigious literary awards.

Her award also provided a rare moment of national unity, as Koreans from both sides of the political divide rushed to praise Han and her writing.

[AFP] Author Han Kang on Thursday became the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for work characterised by the correspondence between mental and physical torment as well as ...