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Korean author Han Kang, the 2024 Nobel Prize winner, expressed surprise and honor, planning to celebrate quietly with tea and her son in Seoul.
President Yoon Suk Yeol called author Han Kang’s Nobel Prize a “historic achievement for Korean literature and a national milestone that all Koreans should celebrate” in a congratulatory message Thursday evening.
From her early works to the present, Han has persistently explored human violence, the resulting wounds from such violence and the tragedy of life.
Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, it was announced Thursday.
Two Korean works of fiction garnered notable accolades from global literature critics this year - Cheon Myeong-kwan's "Whale" and Han Kang's "I Do Not Bid Farewell."
Prix Medicis is one of France's four most prestigious literary awards that annually awards one experimental French novel and another that has been translated into French.
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