The novelist and poet was rewarded “for her intense poetic prose which confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life”.
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The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for his intense poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life”according to the jury.
She succeeds Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, who received the prize last year.
The novelist and poet Han Kang was awarded the 7th Émile Guimet Prize in February this year for her novel “Impossibles adieux”, translated into French by Grasset, and in 2016 the Man Booker International Prize for her book “The Vegetarian”.
The Nobel Prize for Literature is awardeda cash reward of 11 million Swedish crowns (€967,000) coming from a bequest left by the creator of the prize, the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
The winners will be invited to receive their prize during ceremonies organized on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics prize on October 14.
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