Han Kang
Han Kang | |
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Han in 2024 during Nobel Week | |
| Born | November 27, 1970 Gwangju, South Korea |
| Pen name | Han Kang-hyun |
| Education | Yonsei University (BA) |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | The Vegetarian Human Acts |
| Notable awards | Yi Sang Literary Award (2005 International Booker Prize (2016) Prix Médicis étranger (2023) Nobel Prize in Literature (2024) |
| Spouse |
Hong Yong-hee (divorced) |
| Children | 1 |
| Parents | Han Seung-won (father) |
| Signature | |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 한강 |
| Hanja | 韓江 |
| RR | Han Gang |
| MR | Han Kang |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Han Kang (Korean: 한강; born 27 November 1970) 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".