Nobel Prize in literature 2024

Han Kang, a South Korean writer, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024.

She is the first South Korean to receive this prestigious award.

Awarded For: Han Kang received the Nobel Prize for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.

Notable Works: She is best known for her novel "The Vegetarian", which won the International Booker Prize in 2016.

Other notable works include "Human Acts" and "The White Book".

Background: Han Kang was born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea, and comes from a literary family.