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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jem Bartholomew

‘I emerged painfully transformed from her books’: Han Kang readers on her Nobel literature prize

South Korean author Han Kang speaks to the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, in 2016.
South Korean author Han Kang speaks to the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, in 2016. Photograph: Lee Jin-man/AP

The 2024 Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean novelist Han Kang, 53, whose works include The Vegetarian, The White Book, Human Acts and Greek Lessons.

The Nobel committee praised Han’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

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