South Korean author Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024

Interestingly, she is the archetypal South Korean writer to triumph the award, according to the Nobel Press Conference.

Han Kang’s large planetary breakthrough came with the novel 채식주의자 (2007; The Vegetarian, 2015), Nobel mentions. “Written successful 3 parts, the publication portrays the convulsive consequences that ensue erstwhile its protagonist Yeong-hye refuses to taxable to the norms of nutrient intake,” it reads.

Anders Olsson, chairman, Nobel Committee stated that Han Kang began her vocation successful 1993 with the work of a fig of poems successful the mag 문학과사회 (“Literature and Society”). “Her prose debut came successful 1995 with the abbreviated communicative postulation 여수의 사랑 (“Love of Yeosu”), followed soon afterwards by respective different prose works, some novels and abbreviated stories,” helium said successful a statement.

Can Xue, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood, César Aira, Gerald Murnane and Thomas Pynchon were among the authors touted to triumph this year’s Nobel, known wide arsenic the world’s astir prestigious literate award. The Nobel Prize successful Literature has been awarded 117 times to 121 Nobel laureates betwixt 1901 and 2024.

Last year, Jon Fosse won the prestigious honour. The Nobel Literature Committee hailed the Norwegian writer of plays, novels, and children’s books for giving “voice to the unsayable”.

Notably, the Academy is known for bringing lesser-known authors to a wider audience.

Previously, the prize has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (2022), Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021), American writer and essayist Louise Glück ( 2020) and Austrian writer Peter Handke ( 2019).

The database of celebrated winners from yesteryears includes: WB Yeats (1923), GB Shaw (1925) Herman Hesse ( 1946), TS Eliot(1948), Pablo Neruda ( 1971) and Gabriel García Márquez (1982).

Each year, since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been announced for achievements successful the sciences, lit and peace. The Prize was established successful the volition of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite.

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The 2024 #NobelPrize successful Literature is awarded to the South Korean writer Han Kang “for her aggravated poetic prose that confronts humanities traumas and exposes the fragility of quality life.” pic.twitter.com/dAQiXnm11z

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 10, 2024

The Nobel Prize successful Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden.

The Nobel Prize magnitude for 2024 is acceptable astatine Swedish kronor (SEK) 11.0 cardinal (over 8 crore 88 lakh) per afloat Nobel Prize, from a bequest “left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel” according to AP. “The laureates volition person their awards astatine ceremonies connected December 10, the day of Nobel’s death.