The Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 to the South Korean author Han Kang.
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2024
Stockholm
October 10, 2024
- “The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang, ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.’
- “Han Kang’s work addresses historical traumas and invisible societal norms. Through her writing, she exposes the fragility of human life. She is uniquely aware of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead. With her poetic and experimental style, she has become an innovator in contemporary prose.”
THE SWEDISH ACADEMY
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