The author of The Vegetarian – and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 – talks about the impact of winning the International Booker Prize in 2016, how the novel has been received worldwide and why it questions what it means to be human
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Han Kang is a South Korean writer. The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, won the Man Booker International Prize 2016
Born in Gwangju, Han Kang moved to Seoul at the age of ten. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. Her writing has won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today’s Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. She is also the author of Human Acts and The White Book. She is based in Seoul. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024.
The Vegetarian
Winner of The International Booker Prize 2016
- By
- Han Kang
- Translated by
- Deborah Smith
- Published by
- Portobello Books
Fraught, disturbing, and beautiful, Han Kang’s novel is about shame and desire, and our faltering attempts to understand the lives of others
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Hang Kan investigates the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life in a contemplation of memory, loss and the lives that leave this world before us
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