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Han Kang
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1970
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".
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Birth
1970
Death
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First book
1990
Years writing
36
Han Kang was born in 1970 in the city of Gwangju, South Korea.
Her literary versatility allows her to excel in novels, poetry, and essays alike.
Her most internationally recognized work is the striking novel The Vegetarian.
The author has published a total of 33 works throughout her prolific career.
Her writing deeply explores human psychology and the social reality of Korea.