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South Korean author Han Kang has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for her poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life.
Han Kang was born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea and moved to Seoul at the age of 10. He studied Korean Literature at Yonsei University. Works appeared in 1993 with five poems. The following year, she won the Seoul Shinmun newspaper's debut author competition with the story "Red Ankara".
Her first collection of Yosu's short stories was published in 1995. The novel The Vegetarian (2007) brought her worldwide recognition, as its English translation (2015) was awarded the 2016 Booker International Prize.
She has also published the short story collections The Fruit of My Woman (2000) and The Fire Salamander (2012), as well as the novels Black Stag (1998), Your Cold Hands (2002 ), "The Wind Blows, Go" (2010), Greek Lessons (2011 , Human Actions (2014). ), "The White Book" (2016) and "I Don't Forget" (2021). She lives in the South Korean capital and is a professor in the Creative Writing Department of the city's Institute of Arts.
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