Han Kang (Gwangju, South Korea, 1970), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024, began her literary career in 1993 with the publication of several poems in the magazine "Literature and Society"
The following year, she won the Seoul Shinmun Spring Literary Contest with her story "The Scarlet Anchor", marking her start in narrative. She is the author of The Vegetarian (Random House, 2024; International Booker Prize 2016), The Greek Lesson (Random House, 2023), Human Acts (Manhae Literature Prize in Korea and Malaparte Prize in Italy in 2017), White (finalist for the International Booker Prize 2018) and Impossible to Say Goodbye (Random House, 2024; Médicis Foreign Prize 2023)
The author has also received the Yi Sang Prize, the Young Artist of the Year Award, the 25th Korean Novel Prize, the Hwang Sun-won Literature Prize, and the Dong Ri Literature Prize. She worked as a professor in the Creative Writing department at the Seoul Institute of the Arts until 2018 and is currently dedicated full-time to writing. Her work has been published in more than thirty languages.
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