Stockholm, Oct 10 (Agencies): The Swedish Academy announced the name of South Korean author Han Kang as the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The announcement on Thursday made Han the first South Korean writer to win this prestigious honour. The academy praised her “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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Han Kang began her career in 1993 as a poet but has since written mainly novels and short stories. In her oeuvre, she confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life.
Her novel The Vegetarian, which won the 2016 International Booker Prize, remains her most internationally recognised work, Xinhua news reported.
She has also written several other acclaimed works such as Human Acts, The White Book and Greek Lessons.
