Nobel Prize winner Han Kang writes with empathy for vulnerable lives
- Written by Valentina Gosetti, Associate Professor in French, University of New England
South Korean writer Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. The 53-year-old is the first South Korean writer to win the prize, and only the 18th woman (of 121 winners to date). She is also a musician, and interested...





