Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first Asian woman to do so. Known for her poetic prose, she explores ...

The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee.

In her mid-twenties, Han Kang wrote two lines on the first page of every new diary: “Can the present help the past? Can the living save the dead?” She is now 54, a Nobel literature laureate and winner ...

Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is blood, but it’s the current of life,” she said. Han Kang in 2016.

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang’s new novel, “We Do Not Part,” starts with a plea: Filmmaker Inseon, who is recovering from an accident in Seoul, asks her friend Kyungha to travel to her home on ...

From beginning to end, Han’s writing is nothing short of breathtaking — her delicate prose carries a force that knocks you ...

Han Kang's new book "We Do Not Part" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Paik Duhim; book cover courtesy Penguin Random House/Hogarth) Last year, novelist Han Kang became the first Korean writer to ...

Han Kang – winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2024 – is among those who would rather remember, both to bear witness to the previously nameless dead and to warn against the dangers of ...

South Korean writer Han Kang has seen her star soar since The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 (the first Korean book to be ...