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October 10, 2024

Literature Nobel Goes to Han Kang for Works That "Expose the Fragility of Human Life"
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This year's Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to South Korean
author Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical
traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Han Kang, author of
"The Vegetarian" and "The White Book," is the first South Korean author
and just the 18th woman to win the prestigious award since it was
inaugurated in 1901.


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