Have meant to read her stuff (The Vegetarian won the Booker). First Korean author the win the Nobel Prize for Lit (and she sounds a lot more readable than Jon Fosse, last year's winner, whose books I found impenetrable).

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Born: 27 November 1970, Gwangju, South Korea

Residence at the time of the award: Seoul, South Korea

Prize motivation: “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/han/facts/

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> ## Han Kang
>
> The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
>
> Born: 27 November 1970, Gwangju, South Korea
> 
> Residence at the time of the award: Seoul, South Korea
> 
> Prize motivation: “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”
> 
> Language: Korean
>
> *https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/han/facts/*

#### Prize announcement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x-kLapWE-Y

#### Interview about the awarded work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su89FbEOkiQ

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