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[Breaking] South Korea's Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel literature prize

By Kan Hyeong-woo

Published : Oct. 10, 2024 - 20:16

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Han Kang (Munhakdongne Publishing) Han Kang (Munhakdongne Publishing)

South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, clinching the country's first honor in one of the world's most prestigious literature awards.

The Nobel committee on Thursday called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”