Nobel Prize laureate Han Kang’s translated novel We Do Not Part leads a strong line-up of new English-language Korean ...

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

Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, businessman, writer and poet. Nobel’s will ...

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 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 ...

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SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korean novelist Han Kang has made history as the first Korean and the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Han received a diploma and a ...

From politicians and political dissidents to civil rights activists to a Nobel prize-winning physicist, the world said ...

The brief declaration of martial law in South Korea last month has drawn comparisons to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The attempted power grabs could hold lessons for other democracies ...

The king presented Han with the award. She will also receive a prize money of 11 million Swedish kronor, or about $1.07 million. Mattson originally had planned to call Han on to the stage in Korean, ...

Korean novelist Han Kang has made history as the first Korean and the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Han received a diploma and a Nobel medal from Sweden's King Carl ...

literature and medicine, while the peace prize is presented hours earlier in Oslo, Norway. During the week, the different winners participate in the Nobel Week, which consists of different public ...