When the Nobel committee recognized Han Kang in October for her body of work exploring “the fragility of human life,” it ...

Across the first half of the 20th century few women went on to third-level education and, of these, fewer took science ...

Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, who will be speaking at the upcoming Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature in Feb 2025, ...

Han Kang wins South Korea's first Nobel Prize in Literature Author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Dec. 10 ...

Since its foundation in 1901, there have only been five Asian and 18 women Nobel Prize in Literature winners out of 121 individuals. In an interview with the Swedish Academy, Han Kang responded that ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...

Han, the first Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, has long been interested in the existence of the victims of violence, as explored in the context of the Gwangju democratic movement ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke passionately on Saturday about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all ...

A wave of Korean literature is set to reach English-language readers in 2025, ranging from a new novel by a Nobel laureate to ...

Jenn Tran makes history as the first Asian American in the lead role in the history of the Bachelor franchise. Tran first ...