The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this Thursday, October 10 to the South Korean novelist Han Kang. The South Korean novelist Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the jury, she was rewarded for “her poetic prose intense that confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life.”
For the Nobel committee “Han Kang’s work is characterized by this double exposure of pain, a correspondence between mental torment and physical torment, in close connection with Eastern thought”.
Daughter of the writer Han Sung-won, she won the Medici Prize for a foreign novel in 2023 with “Impossible Farewells”. After studying literature at Yonsei University in Seoul, she published her first collection of short stories, ”A Love from Yeosu”, in 1995. This Thursday, October 10, Han Kang is the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Alassane KERE