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Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korean Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose”

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Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korean Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose”

Stockholm. The South Korean Han Kang, author of novels and poems, won the Nobel Prize in Literature this Thursday for “her intense poetic prose, which confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the Swedish academy announced. Han Kang, 53, is the first South Korean to receive the prestigious literature award. Parallel to … Read more

South Korean Han Kang won the Nobel Prize for Literature

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South Korean Han Kang won the Nobel Prize for Literature

South Korean writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. The Academy praised her “intensely poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and reveals the fragility of life”. Her books Vegetarian, Where the Grass Grows and White Book were published in Czech. Fifty-three-year-old Han Kang became famous worldwide mainly for her novel Vegetarian … Read more