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Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024
Oct 10 2024
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 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”.
You can see Han Kang’s brief bio and books listed on BookBrowse here.
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