Han Kang

South Korean writer · South Korea · Writers · Born 1970 · age 55

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A life in dates

2024Ho-Am Prize in the ArtsAwardNobel Prize in LiteratureAward2023Prix Médicis étrangerAward2018“I spent the autumn and winter of 2014 in Warsaw.”In their words5 April 2018As quoted in The Booker Prizes, April 5, 2018Read the whole statement

2017Premio MalaparteAward2016“For me, to write is to endlessly question what is life, what is death, what am I.”In their words19 May 2016As quoted in Korean Literature Now, May 19, 2016Read the whole statement

“Humans will not hesitate to lay down their own lives to rescue a child who had fallen onto the train tracks, yet are also perpetrators of appalling violence, like in Auschwitz.”In their wordsMarch 2016As quoted in The White ReviewRead the whole statement

“I believe that trauma is something to be embraced rather than healed or recovered from.”In their wordsMarch 2016As quoted in The White ReviewRead the whole statement

“I don’t see a single concept of ‘national’ or ‘literature’. Rather, I’ve always been fascinated by language.”In their wordsMarch 2016As quoted in The White ReviewRead the whole statement

International Booker PrizeAward2005Yi Sang Literary AwardAward1970Born27 November 1970

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Han Kang in 2017

Han Kang at the press conference in Stockholm during the Nobel week in December 2024

In their own words 7

Han Kang

7 statements, newest first

I spent the autumn and winter of 2014 in Warsaw.
Apr 5, 2018, As quoted in The Booker Prizes, April 5, 2018, Own words
For me, to write is to endlessly question what is life, what is death, what am I.
May 19, 2016, As quoted in Korean Literature Now, May 19, 2016, Own words
Humans will not hesitate to lay down their own lives to rescue a child who had fallen onto the train tracks, yet are also perpetrators of appalling violence, like in Auschwitz.
Mar 2016, As quoted in The White Review, Own words

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Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature2024

Ho-Am Prize in the Arts2024

Prix Médicis étranger2023

Premio Malaparte2017

International Booker Prize2016

Yi Sang Literary Award2005

Family

Father Han Seung-won

Han Kang

Partners

Spouse Yong-hee Hong

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About this person

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".

Country

South Korea

In common with Han

Kim Sae-ronAlso in The Palace (2021)

Jeon Hye-weonAlso in Silence of the Lambs (2022)

Lee Do-yeobAlso in Silence of the Lambs (2022)

Kim Sae-byukAlso in Silence of the Lambs (2022)

Karl Ove KnausgårdBoth received Premio Malaparte

Kim Ae-ranBoth received Yi Sang Literary Award

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