In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, ...

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 ...

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang ... process and Korea’s hidden past. Kyungha arrives in Jeju with ghosts of her own. She wrote a book about state violence, just as Kang did in 2014 with “Human ...