Han Kang from South Korea is the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the explanation states that she was awarded for "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."
The winner Nobel Prizes for literature for the year 2024 is Han Kang from South Korea, it was announced on the Facebook page of the Nobel Foundation.
The explanation stated that she was awarded for "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."
Han Kang was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju, and moved to Seoul with her family at the age of nine.
Her father was a prominent novelist. In addition to writing, she devoted herself to art and music, which is reflected in her entire literary production.
Han Kang began her career in 1993 by publishing a series of poems in the magazine "Literature and Society". Her prose debut was in 1995 when she published a collection of short stories, Love in Yeos, which was soon followed by other prose works, novels and short stories.
Among them is a notable novel from 2002, "Your Cold Hands", which shows obvious traces of her interest in art. The book reproduces a manuscript left behind by a missing sculptor who was obsessed with making plaster casts of women's bodies.
Her big international breakthrough came with the original novel "Vegetarian" published in 2007, which was published in English translation in 2015. Written in three parts, the novel depicts the violent consequences that arise when its protagonist refuses to comply with food intake norms. She won the Booker Prize for that novel, which was also translated into Serbian.
Her work is characterized by a double exposure to pain, a correspondence between mental and physical torture with close ties to Eastern thought.
In his work, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules, and in each of his works he exposes the fragility of human life.
She has a unique awareness of the connection between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style she has become an innovator in contemporary prose.
She studied literature in Seoul, where she now teaches creative writing.
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