South Korean writer Han Kang has gained the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The 53-year-old fiction author is a former winner of the Man Booker Worldwide Prize for her 2007 novel The Vegetarian.
On the ceremony she was praised “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historic traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.
The Nobel Prize committee has awarded the literary award since 1901 and this marks the 18th time a girl has gained the prize.
Han is the primary South Korean winner of the prize, who was described by the Nobel Prize board as somebody who has “devoted herself to music and artwork”.
The assertion additionally added that her work crosses boundaries by exploring a broad span of genres – these embody violence, grief and patriarchy.
A turning level for her profession got here in 2016, when she gained the Worldwide Man Booker prize for The Vegetarian – a guide which had been launched practically a decade earlier than, however was first translated into English in 2015 by Deborah Smith.
It depicts the violent penalties for a girl who refuses to undergo the norms of meals consumption.
Han’s different works embody The White Guide, Human Acts and Greek Classes.
Swedish Academy everlasting secretary Mats Malm mentioned on the ceremony that “she wasn’t actually ready” to win the prize.
He added: “She has a singular consciousness of the connections between physique and soul, the dwelling and the lifeless and in her poetic and experimental type, has grow to be an innovator in modern prose”.
Han is the primary feminine recipient of the literature prize since 2022, when it was awarded to French author Annie Ernaux.
She can be the primary feminine Nobel laureate this yr.