The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, went to the South ...

The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious ...

H AN KANG has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation. “The Fruit of My ...

The Nobel Prize in literature has long faced criticism for its focus on European and North American men. Han Kang, the first ...

Han Kang, the South Korean author behind unflinching and provocative tales that deftly explore the depths of human violence ...

Get to know Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, best known for her book, The Vegetarian.

Han Kang, author of the 2016 International Booker Prize winner 'The Vegetarian', is only the 9th Asian to win the Literature ...

Han Kang is the first South Korean writer to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature, and in its history of 121 winners over ...

Best known for "The Vegetarian," the novelist and poet was praised for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life" ...

Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by ...

The Swedish Academy praised Kang for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of ...

The trailblazing South Korean author was virtually unknown in the West just 10 years ago — then came Deborah Smith’s ...