STOCKHOLM, Oct 10 - The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang, the Nobel Committee announced.
In the reasons for the decision, it stated its "intense poetic prose that deals with historical traumas and reveals the fragility of human life".
"She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and has become an innovator of contemporary prose with her poetic and experimental style." the committee said in a statement.
Han Kang was born on 27 November 1970. She became famous for her novel Vegetarianfor which she won the 2016 Booker Prize, as well as the novel Human Acts.
In her oeuvre, 2024 literature laureate Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her... pic.twitter.com/iS5KsU7GtM
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