Han Kang first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize

Han Kang first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize

South Korean author Han Kang, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday, has vowed after receiving other top literary awards that she would continue writing "as if nothing had happened".
The 53-year-old is the first South Korean to receive the honour, the Swedish Academy hailing "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
Han "The Vegetarian", which tells the story of an ordinary woman rejection of convention from three different perspectives, also won the Booker prize in 2016.
She said after that award, which caused a spike in international sales on top of her more familiar South Korean market, that she hoped to stay out of the limelight.