SOUTH KOREAN AUTHOR HAN KANG RECEIVES THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE IN 2024

Fri 11 October 2024:

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang.

Han was recognized for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the Nobel committee announced on Thursday.

The author was born in 1970 in South Korea, where she still resides, as the daughter of a “reputed novelist,” the committee said in a statement. It added that she was also interested in art and music.

She began her career in 1993, and her “major international breakthrough came with the novel The Vegetarian,” first published in 2007, which “portrays the violent consequences that ensue when its protagonist Yeong-hye refuses to submit to the norms of food intake,” the statement read.

The committee explained that “Han Kang’s work is characterized by this double exposure of pain, a correspondence between mental and physical torment with close connections to Eastern thinking.”

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The author has a “unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose,” it noted.

The Nobel Prize was established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor, engineer, and industrialist who invented dynamite.

Upon his death in 1896, Nobel left his fortune to create prizes that would honor outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901.

Since then, the Nobel Prize has become one of the most prestigious awards globally, recognizing individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to humanity. The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the others are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.

The prize also includes a monetary award, a diploma, and a gold medal. Over time, the Nobel Prize has evolved, with the addition of the Economics prize in 1968, and remains a symbol of global excellence and humanitarian progress.

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