She is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious award.
STOCKHOLM – Han Kang, the South Korean author best known for The Vegetarian, was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature on Oct 10 – the first writer from her country to receive the major award.
Han’s Nobel was a surprise. Before the announcement, the bookmakers’ favourite for this year’s award was Can Xue, an avant-garde Chinese writer of category-defying novels.Han was born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. Her father was also a novelist, but much less successful. The event shaped her views on humanity’s capacity for violence, she said in the 2016 interview, and its spectre has haunted her writing. In her 2014 novel Human Acts, for instance, a writer observes a police raid on a group of activists.Nobel laureate Han Kang says the 1980 Gwangju uprising shaped her views on humanity’s capacity for violence. PHOTO: NYTIMESHer debut novel, Black Deer, which came out in 1998, was a mystery about a missing woman.
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