Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang

Han Kang a remporté le prix Médicis en 2021. YNA – YONHAP

Le prestigieux et très attendu prix Nobel de littérature a été décerné ce jeudi 10 octobre à l’autrice sud-coréenne Han Kang.

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang, 53.

Han Kang, who writes poetry and novels in Korean, was honored “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life,”, the jury said in a statement.

Han Kang is “born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before moving to Seoul with her family at the age of nine. She comes from a literary background, her father being a renowned novelist. Alongside writing, she has also devoted herself to art and music, which is reflected in all of her literary output,” says the Nobel Prize-awarding institution.

Already Awarded

Han Kang recently won the Prix Médicis for Foreign Literature with her 2021 novel “I Do Not Bid Farewell”. She is also the winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for “The Vegetarian”.

Han Kang is the first female author of Korean nationality to receive the prestigious literary prize.