STOCKHOLM: South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life", the award-giving body said on Thursday (Oct 10).
South Korean author Han Kang poses for the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, on May 24, 2016. Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature on Oct 10, 2024.STOCKHOLM: South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for"her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life", the award-giving body said on Thursday .
Two of her books have been made into films:"The Vegetarian" in 2009, directed by Lim Woo-seong, and 2011's"Scars", by the same director. She is the second South Korean to win a Nobel prize ever, after 2000 peace prize winner and former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung.Bookmaker favourites ahead of the announcement included Chinese writer Can Xue and many other perennial possible candidates such as Kenya's Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Australia's Gerald Murnane and Canada's Anne Carson.
The 2016 prize award to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was hailed as a radical rethink about what literature is, but also seen as a snub to authors in more traditional genres.
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