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STORY: :: The 2024 Nobel prize for literature is awarded to South Korean experimental novelist Han Kang:: October 10, 2024:: Stockholm, Sweden:: Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy:: "The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 is awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”:: Seoul, South Korea:: May 24, 2016:: Anders Olsson, Nobel Committee Member:: “In her oeuvre, Han Kang, as expressed in the Academy citation, confronts historical traumas and in each of her works exposes the fragility of human life. She 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.”:: Anna-Karin Palm, Nobel Committee Member:: “This is a very rich and complex oeuvre. I mean, Han Kang was born in 1970, but she has already been a published author for more than 30 years, and her work spans so many different genres, and she writes this really intense lyrical prose that is both brutal and tender, and sometimes slightly surrealistic, and very, very exciting to read, I think.”Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the literature prize, began her career in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems in the magazine Literature and Society, while her prose debut came in 1995 with the short story collection "Love of Yeosu".Born in 1970, she comes from a literary background, her father being a well-regarded novelist.Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction for her novel "The Vegetarian" in 2016, the first of her novels to be translated into English and regarded as her major international breakthrough.She is the second South Korean to win a Nobel prize ever, after 2000 peace prize winner and former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.
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