Han Kang is a South Korean writer, born in 1970, who taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts from 2007 to 2018. She rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction, in 2016. She is the first Asian woman and the first Korean to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded in 2024 for intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
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is a South Korean writer
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born 27 November 1970
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Author: Han Kang
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