Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
Han Kang’s work is characterised by a double exposure of pain, a correspondence between mental and physical torment with close connections to Eastern thinking.
In her oeuvre, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.
She follows fellow RCW clients Kazuo Ishiguro, Olga Tokarczuk, and Abdulrazak Gurnah who were the recipients of the 2017, 2018 and 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature respectively.