South Korean writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature this year.
The Royal Swedish Academy announced his name for the prestigious award on Thursday (October 10). The award was given for her brilliantly poetic prose, which bravely exposes historical wounds and reveals the fragility of human life.
Han Kang is a very popular writer in South Korea.
Commenting on Han Kang's first English novel, The Vegetarian, The Guardian's Daniel Hahn commented, "Throughout the book's three volumes, the intolerable pressures of some of society's most immutable structures unsettle the reader." These elements are needs and behaviors and organizational practices, which in turn lead to failure.
This South Korean writer won the 2016 International Man Booker Prize. She was considered for the award for her novel The Vegetarian.
Han Kang was born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. She moved to Seoul with her family at the age of nine. Han Kang grew up in a literary family. Her father is a renowned novelist. Apart from writing, he also devoted herself to art and music, which is reflected in her literature.