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Han Kang is a South Korean writer, novelist, short story writer, and poet born in Gwangju in 1970. She writes in Korean and is educated at Yonsei University. Her career began in 1990, and she works in Seoul at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. She has two children.
Her notable works include The Vegetarian, Human Acts, Greek Lessons, and The White Book. She has received the Yi Sang Literary Award, International Booker Prize, Premio Malaparte, and Prix Médicis étranger. She was also nominated for the International Booker Prize. Her field of work encompasses Korean literature and Korean poetry, with a genre focus on essays.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Literature2024
“for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Place of birth
- Gwangju
- Father
- Han Seung-won
- Occupation
- poet
- Educated at
- Yonsei University
- Employer
- Seoul Institute of the Arts
- Languages spoken
- Korean
- Native language
- Korean
- Field of work
- Korean poetry
- Genre
- essay
- Official website
- han-kang.net
- Image
- Han Kang, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature (cropped).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Seoul
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- date of birth
- 1970-11-27
- Commons category
- Han Kang
- writing language
- Korean
- start of work period
- 1990-00-00
- nominated for
- International Booker Prize
- name in native language
- 한강
- described at URL
- baike.sogou.com/v167896004.htm
- topic's main category
- Category:Han Kang
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Literature
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Encyclopedic overview
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".
Early life and education
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