Han Kang, South Korean novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was able to conquer the public by telling the collective story and the intimate wounds linked by great sensitivity.
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Published on 10/10/2024 at 2:58 p.m.
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Lhe South Korean novelist Han Kang, 53, is the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is not unknown to French-speaking readers since several of her books have been translated and‘Impossible goodbyes received, last year, a foreign Medici prize shared with Lidia Jorge (Misericordia). The Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, crowns it “for its intense poetic prose which confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life”.
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