In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them, but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three ...

Kang’s novels offer an important lens for understanding Korean history and politics, and the grief and strength of the Korean people.

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When the South Korean writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize last year, celebrations broke out across the country. Some of the ...

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 ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang was introduced to most English readers by her 2007 book, “The Vegetarian” (published in English in 2015), which won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history, tragedy and the work of remembering. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin ...

Though Han Kang’s previous novels have nothing to do with her latest, familiarity with her work makes the reader sensitive to the author’s sensibilities. When she was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

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 ...