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

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

Whether you want to start or can't stop reading there's sure to be a title that tickles your fancy in our carefully curated ...

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 ...

The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...

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 ...

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 ...

The inaugural Sharjah Festival of African Literature (SFAL) is set to shine light on the extraordinary breadth of African ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...