# Han Kang

> Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".

*South Korean writer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** South Korea
- **Born:** 1970-11-27
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 66.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.8 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
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- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
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- **WEBSITE**: https://han-kang.net

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