Although the book remains untitled, the publisher said it will be similar in length to the other works in the series and ...

Han was nine years old when her family left Gwangju in January 1980, roughly four months before the 1980 May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement and massacre. At 12 years old, she encountered a photo ...

SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- Han Kang's unexpected Nobel Prize win in literature this year transcends a national milestone. For many Koreans, it signifies not only the chance to read a Nobel laureate's ...

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Since its foundation in 1901, there have only been five Asian and 18 women Nobel Prize in Literature winners out of 121 individuals. In an interview with the Swedish Academy, Han Kang responded that ...

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STOCKHOLM--South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean author Han Kang, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, said Friday that she was shocked by this week's martial law announcement in her home country.

STOCKHOLM--South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke passionately on Saturday about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all ...