Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is blood, but it’s the current of life,” she said. Han Kang in 2016.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Nobel-Prize winning author Han Kang about her latest novel, "We Do Not Part." The inspiration for Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang's new novel came to her in a dream.

Han was first published in a literary magazine in 1993, and she’s been a celebrated author in South Korea for decades. In 2015, Deborah Smith ’s English translation of The Vegetarian propelled ...

Books Han Kang wins the Nobel Prize for literature. She’s the first South Korean to do so. Nobel literature committee member Anna-Karin Palm said Han writes about “trauma, pain and loss ...

Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang’s upcoming book, “Light and Thread,” was revealed to the media on Tuesday by its publisher, Moonji Publishing. The collection of essays and poems ...

South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the ...

In a 2024 speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature, South Korean author Han Kang confessed that “I had long lost a sense of deep-rooted trust in humans.” She wondered: “How then could ...

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history, tragedy and the work of remembering. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin ...

Han Kang fever is sweeping Korea after the author became the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The phenomenon goes beyond simply purchasing and reading Han’s works.