The Nobel Prize in literature has long faced criticism for its focus on European and North American men. Han Kang, the first ...

The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious ...

The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, went to the South ...

Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by ...

From the daily newsletter: the first South Korean to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. Plus: the Saudi Princesses held captive ...

H AN KANG has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation. “The Fruit of My ...

This photo, provided by Pony Chung Foundation, shows South Korean author Han Kang. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) SEOUL, Oct.

Han Kang is the first South Korean writer to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature, and in its history of 121 winners over ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang, 53, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her "intense poetic prose" addressing historical ...

A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian ...

The Nobel Committee announced on Thursday that South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Swedish Academy has awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Han Kang, the renowned novelist and poet. At the ...