A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. She was awarded for books, including "The Vegetarian" and "Human Acts," that explore the pain of being human and the scars of Korea's turbulent history.

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her “intense poetic prose.”

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” The Swedish Academy in Stockholm credited her for her unique awareness of the connections between body and soul,

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to David Baker, John M. Jumper and Demis Hassabis for their work to quickly predict the shape of proteins.

U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones, yielding advances in areas such as drug development.