South Korean author Han Kang wins Nobel literature prize for her 'intense poetic prose'

The Nobel Prize successful lit was awarded Thursday to South Korean writer Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called "her aggravated poetic prose that confronts humanities traumas and exposes the fragility of quality life."

Mats Malm, imperishable caput of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee, announced the prize successful Stockholm.

Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize successful 2016 for "The Vegetarian," an unsettling caller successful which a woman's determination to halt eating nutrient has devastating consequences.

Her caller "Human Acts" was an International Booker Prize finalist successful 2018.

The lit prize has agelong faced disapproval that it is excessively focused connected European and North American writers of style-heavy, story-light prose. It has besides been male-dominated, with conscionable 17 women among its 119 laureates truthful far. The past pistillate to triumph was Annie Ernaux of France, successful 2022.

Six days of Nobel announcements opened Monday with Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun winning the medicine prize. Two founding fathers of instrumentality learning — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the physics prize connected Tuesday. On Wednesday, 3 scientists who discovered almighty techniques to decode and adjacent plan caller proteins were awarded the Nobel Prize successful chemistry.

The Nobel Peace Prize volition beryllium announced Friday and the economics grant connected Oct. 14.

The prize carries a currency grant of $1 cardinal from a bequest near by the award's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to person their awards astatine ceremonies connected Dec. 10, the day of Nobel's death.