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

Han Kang, the South Korean author behind unflinching and provocative tales that deftly explore the depths of human violence ...

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

SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han ...

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

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

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

Han Kang, author of the 2016 International Booker Prize winner 'The Vegetarian', is only the 9th Asian to win the Literature ...

South Koreans flocked to book stores on Friday and crashed websites in a frenzy to snap up copies of the work of novelist Han ...

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