Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her ‘intense poetic prose’
The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm on Thursday.
Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences.
The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
Her novel Human Acts was an International Booker Prize finalist in 2018.
The literature prize has long faced criticism that it is too focused on European ...