The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
Han Kang was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before moving with her family to Seoul at the age of nine. She comes from a literary background, her father being a reputed novelist. Alongside her writing, she has also devoted herself to art and music, reflected throughout her entire literary production.
