South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024.

Awards

South Korean writer and novelist Han Kang has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."


      - She is the first South Korean to win a Nobel Prize in literature and the second Nobel laureate from South Korea, following former President Kim Dae Jung, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.

     

     

Main Points:-   (i) The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden announced the award on October 10, 2024.

      (ii) Han Kang began her career in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems in the magazine ‘Literature and Society’.


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