First South Korean to win literature Nobel bags prize for her ’intense poetic prose’ | DW News

Han Kang of South Korea has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy noted her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.“ Han, 53, has been publishing to critical acclaim in her native country since 1995. She achieved greater international recognition for “The Vegetarian.“ Originally published in 2007, it was first published in English in 2015 and went on to win the International Man Booker Prize a year later. Her novels often feature female protagonists feeling isolated or at odds with South Korea’s rigid social norms. Han is the first Asian woman to win the world’s most prestigious literary prize. #hankang #nobelprize #southkorea Subscribe: For more news go to: Follow DW on social media: ►Facebook: ►Tw