This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature will go to South Korean writer Han Kang for her deeply poetic prose that challenges historical trauma and reveals the fragility of human life.
The writer also won the 2016 Man Booker Prize for her novel The Vegetarian, which tells the story of a mentally ill woman’s relationship with her family.
This novel was the first in his legacy to be translated into English. It was subsequently filmed and shown at the North American Film Fest.
Kang also released an album with 10 songs, the lyrics of which she wrote herself.
Ha Gang became the 18th woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first woman among the laureates announced this year.
Since its inception, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded predominantly to European male writers. Of the 120 laureates, only 17 were women, eight of them in the last 20 years.
Source: Racurs
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