Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 awarded to South Korean author Han Kang
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 has been awarded toSouth Korean author Han Kang,“for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.Her works include The Vegetarian, The White Book, Human Acts and Greek Lessons.
The Swedish Academy declared the winner on Thursday (Oct 10) with the prize carryingacash award of 11million Swedish kronor ($1.1 million)and will be awarded on December 10.
"In her oeuvre, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life,"Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel Committee said after the winner announcement.
"She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose," Olsson added.
Who is Han Kang?
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Han, 53, was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before moving to capital city of Seoul at the age of nine with her family.She comes from a literary background, her father being a reputed novelist. Alongside her writing, she has also devoted herself to art and music, which is reflected throughout her entire literary production.
Shebegan her career in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems in the magazine 'Literature and Society'. Herprose debut came in 1995 with the short story collection ‘Love of Yeosu'.
Han's 2007 novel The Vegetarian, was translated into English in 2015 and won the International Booker prize in 2016.
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Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize was created by wealthy Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who in his will dictated that his estate should be used to fund "prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind". Nobel died in 1895, but it took until 1901, following a legal battle over his will before the first prizes were awarded.
Nobel named the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to award the prizes for chemistry and physics, the Swedish Academy for Literature, Sweden's Karolinska Institute Medical University for Physiology or Medicine, and the Norwegian Parliament for Peace.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was awarded to Jon Fosse "for his innovative plays and prose which gives voice to the unsayable".
(With inputs from agencies)