Han Kang: South Korean author wins Nobel Literature Prize

Han is the primary South Korean winner of the prize, who was described by the Nobel Prize board as somebody who has “devoted herself to music and artwork”.

The assertion additionally added that her work crosses boundaries by exploring a broad span of genres – these embody violence, grief and patriarchy.

A turning level for her profession got here in 2016, when she received the Worldwide Man Booker prize for The Vegetarian – a ebook which had been launched practically a decade earlier than, however was first translated into English in 2015 by Deborah Smith.

It depicts the violent penalties for a girl who refuses to undergo the norms of meals consumption.

Han’s different works embody The White Guide, Human Acts and Greek Classes.

Swedish Academy everlasting secretary Mats Malm stated on the ceremony that “she wasn’t actually ready” to win the prize.

Committee chair Anders Olsen additionally stated she “confronts historic traumas and invisible units of guidelines and, in every of her works, exposes the fragility of human life”.

He praised her “poetic and experimental model”, and referred to as her “an innovator in modern prose”.

The chair added she has “distinctive consciousness of the connections between physique and soul, the residing and the useless”.