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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Fanny Brodersen and Vanessa Gera

Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, is shocked by recent events in South Korea

Sweden Nobel Prize Literature - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

South Korean author Han Kang, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, said Friday that she was shocked by this week's martial law announcement in her home country.

Han, awarded by the Nobel committee “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," spoke to journalists at a news conference in Stockholm after days of political turmoil back home.

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