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 ...

FICTION We Do Not Part Han Kang Hamish Hamilton, $35. When the South Korean writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize last year, ...

When she was awarded the Nobel Prize last year, Han Kang refused to celebrate citing the ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine. In many ways, she seems to find it impossible to move on from the ...

Han has attracted a wider audience, both at home and abroad, since being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in October. An English translation of the novel set on Jeju, “We Do Not Part ...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your March reading list.

The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...

Daffodils have started to appear and it feels as though we are finally emerging from what has been a particularly gloomy and ...

The writer arrives in Seoul during the Gwangju massacre, witnessing widespread fear under martial law. Decades later, the ...

Hailed as a “masterpiece” by reviewers and fellow writers in the Spanish-speaking world, Minimosca is the third novel by ...

[Read the full profile, by Victoria Kim, here.] Our news article when Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: Han was awarded the prize in 2024 for “her intense poetic prose that ...