Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday, for “intense poetic prose that ...

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

SEOUL, Oct 11 (Reuters) - South Koreans flocked to book stores on Friday and crashed websites in a frenzy to snap up copies ...

Han is the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. She also becomes the second South Korean national to ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han ...

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South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The 53-year-old fiction writer is a former winner of the ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel ...

Known for her novel “The Vegetarian,” Kang was praised for her intense poetic prose.

Nobel committee chairman Anders Olsson praised Han's "physical empathy for the vulnerable, often female lives" of her characters.