SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korean novelist Han Kang has made history as the first Korean and the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Han received a diploma and a ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang (C) is congratulated by other Nobel laureates after receiving a diploma and Nobel medal from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf during the Nobel Prize 2024 award ceremony ...

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among them a Fields Medal, a Vetlesen Prize and a Millennium Technology Prize. Frans Emil Sillanpää, The Nobel Prize 1939 in literature Frans Emil SIllanpää received the Nobel Prize in literature in ...

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Burns for installation at Boston College Ireland. A four-week webinar series produced by Boston College is exploring the lives and works of the four Irishborn winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: ...

SEOUL--South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature, an unexpected moment that stoked national pride ...

(He deigned to accept the medal the following year ... Now it will present the 111th and 112th Nobel Prizes in Literature, and the question is: will the normally inscrutable jury process produce crowd ...

A 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal, only the second such medal to be sold at auction, has fetched 1.1 million dollars in a sale to a private Asian collector, auctioneers Stack's Bowers said on Friday.

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...