South Korea is on a cultural roll – ‘ Squid Game ’ is ruling Netflix. Earlier this month, ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ became a Tony Award-winning play on Broadway, a milestone which reminded of ‘Parasite’, ...

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South Korean author Han Kang recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 2024, often considered the most prestigious award in the world. She became the first Asian woman and Korean writer ...

After Han Kang won the Prize in Literature last month, a stage version of her novel “The Vegetarian” sold out its run at a struggling Paris theater. Listen to this article · 5:25 min Learn more ...

Written by South Korean author Han Kang and translated by British writer Deborah Smith, “The Vegetarian” masterfully explores the lure of volatile human desire by challenging South Korean ...

For this — and much more — Han Kang richly deserves this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. The writer is Associate Professor in French at the University of New England in Australia.

In my room, I quietly sit and read excerpts from Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (Portobello Books, 2015) in celebration of her winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Kang’s win actually defies the previously asked question; now I have heard of her. This is part of the function of the Nobel Prize, which is recognizing achievements and people doing great things.

Han Kang's Nobel Prize was a surprise to many in South Korea. Here's what you need to know about 'her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life' ...

Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize for fiction translated into English in 2016 for “The Vegetarian,” an unsettling novel in which a woman’s decision to stop eating meat has ...