Novelist Han Kang, 53, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” She becomes the first writer from South Korea to ever win the award, as well as one of the youngest people to win the prize in the modern era. Han is the author of The Vegetarian, which won the International Booker in 2007, as well as The White Book, which was also nominated for the International Booker Prize, and Greek Lessons, published in English in 2023. Her first book, a short story collection […]
