Han Kang
27 November 1970 – present
Han Kang is a South Korean writer born in Gwangju, known for novels including The Vegetarian, Human Acts and The White Book. Her work frequently addresses violence, grief and the body in spare, image-driven prose. She won the International Booker Prize in 2016 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024, becoming the first South Korean writer to receive the latter.
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Life events
Born into a literary family; her father, Han Seung-won, is also a novelist.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe family relocated shortly before the Gwangju uprising of May 1980.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGraduated from the department of Korean language and literature in Seoul.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPublished poems in the quarterly Munhak-gwa-sahoe, beginning her writing career.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWon the Seoul Shinmun spring literary contest, marking her debut as a fiction writer.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA three-part novel about a woman who stops eating meat and withdraws from human norms.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA novel centred on the 1980 Gwangju uprising and its aftermath.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShared the prize with translator Deborah Smith for the English edition.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgA novel dealing with the Jeju uprising and its long aftermath.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCited for intense poetic prose confronting historical traumas and the fragility of human life.
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