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Han Kang is a South Korean author known for writing literary fiction that explores psychological and emotional themes. Her work has gained international recognition, contributing to the global prominence of contemporary South Korean literature.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1953
- Died
- )
- Works
- 13
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- Die Vegetarierin
- Bei bu wan xin qu zhong guo jing ji zeng zhang di si ji
- Zhongguo shi chang jing ji mo shi chong xin si kao
- Zhongguo zheng fu guan li an li
- 21 shi ji
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Han Kang (Korean: 한강; born 27 November 1970) is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
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