Han Kanga South Korean writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 “for his intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the Swedish Academy announced.
The academics appreciated that his work is characterized by this double exposure of pain, “a correspondence between mental and physical torment with close connections to Eastern thought.”
Kang, according to Penguin, a publisher that publishes his work in Argentina, He began his career as a novelist by winning the newspaper’s spring literary contest Seoul Shinmun in 1994. The vegetarianhis first novel translated into English, won the 2016 International Booker Prize.
His next novel, human actsearned him the Manhae Prize for Korean Literature and the Malaparte Prize in Italy in 2017. The white paper It was a Booker International finalist in 2018. The author has also received the Yi Sang Award, the Young Artist of the Year Award, the 25th Korean Novel Award, the Hwang Sun-won Literature Award, and the Dong Ri Literature Award.
Until 2018, she worked as a professor in the Creative Writing department of the Seoul Institute of Arts, and currently dedicates herself completely to writing. Kang has been published in more than thirty languages.
The Swedish Academy explained this morning that “the physical empathy of the laureate for extreme life stories is reinforced by his increasingly charged metaphorical style.
And they gave the novel as an example Human Actsfrom 2016, in which Han Kang “uses as a political foundation a historic event which took place in the city of Gwangju, where she herself grew up and where hundreds of students and unarmed civilians were killed during a massacre carried out by the South Korean army in 1980.
