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South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize
The first South Korean to win the literature prize said she would ‘celebrate it quietly’ and have tea with her son.
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. The author of Convalescence began her career in 1993 with the publication of several poems in the magazine, Literature and Society [File: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP]Han was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before moving with her family to Seoul at the age of nine. In the 2014 novel, Human Acts, set in the city of Gwangju where she grew up, Han confronted her country’s history of state violence by giving voice to the victims of a massacre carried out by the South Korean military in 1980.
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