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Han Kang (Andoza:Korean; born November 27, 1970) is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. In 2024, she became the first South Korean writer and the first female Asian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Early life and education

Han Kang was born on November 27, 1970 in Gwangju. Her family is noted for its literary background. Her father is novelist Han Seung-won. Her older brother, Han Dong-rim, is also a novelist, while her younger brother, Han Kang-in, is a novelist and cartoonist.

At 9, Han moved to Suyu-ri in Seoul, when her father quit his teaching job to become a full-time writer, four months before the the Gwangju Uprising, a pro-democracy movement that ended in the military’s massacre of students and civilians. She first learned about the massacre when she was 12, after discovering at home a secretly circulated memorial album of photographs taken by a German journalist. This discovery deeply influenced her view on humanity and her literary works.

Han's father struggled to make ends meet with his writing career, which negatively impacted his family. Han later described her childhood as "too much for a little child"; however, being surrounded by books gave her comfort. In 1993, Han graduated from Yonsei University, where she majored in Korean language and literature. In 1998, she was enrolled at the University of Iowa International Writing Program.

Career

Han's literary career began when five of her poems, including "Winter in Seoul", were featured in the Winter 1993 issue of the quarterly Literature and Society. She made her fiction debut the next year, when her short story "The Scarlet Anchor" was the winning entry in the ''Seoul Shinmun'' Spring Literary Contest. Her first story collection, A Love of Yeosu, was published in 1995 and attracted attention for its precise and tightly narrated composition.

In 2007, Han published a book, A Song to Sing Calmly, that was accompanied by a music album. At first she did not intend to sing, but Han Jung Rim, a musician and music director, insisted that Han Kang record the songs herself.

In her college years Han became obsessed with a line of poetry by the Korean modernist poet Yi Sang: "I believe that humans should be plants." She understood Yi's line to imply a defensive stance against the violence of Korea's colonial history under Japanese occupation, and took it as an inspiration to write her most successful work, The Vegetarian. The second part of the three-part novel, Mongolian Mark, won the Yi Sang Literary Award. The rest of the series (The Vegetarian and Fire Tree) was delayed by contractual problems.

The Vegetarian was Han's first novel translated into English, although she had already attracted worldwide attention by the time Deborah Smith translated it. There has been some controversy over the translation, as scholars have detected mistakes in it; among other things, there is concern that Smith attributed some of the dialogue to the wrong characters. The translated work won the International Booker Prize 2016 for both Han and Smith. Han was the first Korean to be nominated for the award, and, in its English translation, it was the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction. The Vegetarian was also chosen as one of "The 10 Best Books of 2016" by The New York Times Book Review.

Han's third novel, The White Book, was shortlisted for the 2018 International Booker Prize.

Han's novel Human Acts was released in January 2016 by Portobello Books. Han received the Premio Malaparte for the Italian translation of Human Acts, Atti Umani, by Adelphi Edizioni, in Italy on October 1, 2017. Her 2017 autobiographical novel The White Book centers on the loss of her older sister, a baby who died two hours after her birth.

Han's novel We Do Not Part was published in 2021. It tells the story of a writer researching the 1948–49 Jeju uprising and its impact on her friend's family. The French translation of the novel won the Prix Médicis Étranger in 2023.

In 2023, Han's fourth full-length novel, Greek Lessons, was translated into English by Deborah Smith and E Yaewon. The Atlantic called it a book in which "words are both insufficient and too powerful to tame".

Personal life

Han was married to Hong Yong-hee, a literary critic and professor at Kyung Hee Cyber University. In 2024, Han stated that they were divorced a long time ago, though the exact year was never specified. Han has a son, with whom she has run a bookstore in Seoul since 2018.

Han has said that she suffers from periodic migraines, and credits them with "keeping her humble".

Awards and recognition

Han won the Yi Sang Literary Award (2005) for Mongolian Mark (the second part of The Vegetarian), the 25th Korean Novel Award^{[oydinlashtirilsin]} for her novella Baby Buddha in 1999, the 2000 Today's Young Artist Award from the Korean Ministry of Culture, and the 2010 Dongri Literary Award for The Wind is Blowing.

In 2018, Han became the fifth writer chosen to contribute to the Future Library project. Katie Paterson, the project's organizer, said that Han had been chosen because she "expands our view of the world". Han delivered the manuscript, Dear Son, My Beloved, in May 2019. In the handover ceremony, she dragged a white cloth through the forest and wrapped it around the manuscript. She explained this as a reference to Korean culture, in which a white cloth is used both for babies and for mourning gowns, describing the event as "like a wedding of my manuscript with this forest. Or a lullaby for a century-long sleep".

Han was elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer in 2023.

The Vegetarian placed 49th in The New York Times's "100 Best Books of the 21st century" in July 2024.

In 2024, Han was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy for her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life". This made her the first South Korean writer and the first female Asian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Awards

• 1999 – Korean Novel Award for Baby Buddha
• 2000 – Korean Ministry of Culture Today's Young Artist Award – Literature Section
• 2005 – Yi Sang Literary Award for Mongolian Mark
• 2010 – Dongri Literary Award for The Wind is Blowing
• 2014 – Manhae Literary Award for Human Acts
• 2015 – Hwang Sun-won Literary Award for While One Snowflake Melts
• 2016 – International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian
• 2017 – Malaparte Prize for Human Acts
• 2018 – Kim Yu-jeong Literary Award for Farewell
• 2019 – San Clemente Literary Prize for The Vegetarian
• 2023 – Prix Médicis étranger for We Do Not Part
• 2024:
  • Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature for We Do Not Part
  • Ho-Am Prize in the Arts
  • Nobel Prize in Literature

Works

Novels

• 여수의 사랑 ("Love in Yeosu"), Moonji, 1995, ISBN 89-320-0750-0.
• 검은 사슴 ("Black deer"), Munhakdongne, 1998, ISBN 89-8281-133-8.
• 내 여자의 열매 ("My woman's fruits"), Changbi, 2000, ISBN 89-364-3657-0.
• 그대의 차가운 손 ("Your cold hands"), Moonji, 2002, ISBN 89-320-1304-7.
• 채식주의자 ("The vegetarian"), Changbi 2007, ISBN 978-89-364-3359-8.
  • The Vegetarian, translated by Deborah Smith, London: Portobello Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-84627-562-3.
  • new edition: London Hogarth/Random House, 2016, ISBN 978-1-101-90611-8.
• 바람이 분다, 가라 ("The wind blows, go"), Moonji, 2010, ISBN 978-89-320-2000-6.
• 희랍어 시간 ("Greek lessons"), Munhakdongne, 2011, ISBN 978-89-546-1651-5.
  • Greek Lessons, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won, Hogarth Press, 2023, ISBN 978-0-593-59527-5.
• 노랑무늬영원 ("Fire Salamander"), Moonji, 2012, ISBN 978-89-320-2353-3.
• 소년이 온다 ("Human acts"), Changbi 2014, ISBN 978-89-364-3412-0.
  • Human Acts, translated by Deborah Smith, London: Portobello Books, 2016, ISBN 978-1-84627-596-8.
• 흰 ("White"), Nanda, 2016, ISBN 978-89-546-4071-8.
  • The White Book, translated by Deborah Smith, London: Portobello Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1-84627-695-8.
  • new edition: London: Hogarth, 2019, ISBN 978-0-525-57306-7.
• 작별하지 않는다 ("We Do Not Part"), Munhakdongne, 2021, ISBN 978-89-546-8215-2.
  • We Do Not Part, translated by Emily Yae Won and Paige Aniyah Morris, London: Hogarth Press, 2025, ISBN 978-1-84627-695-8.

Short stories

• 내 이름은 태양꽃 ("My name is Sunflower"), Munhakdongne, 2002, ISBN 978-89-8281-479-2.
• 붉은 꽃 이야기 ("The red flower story"), Yolimwon, 2003, ISBN 978-89-7063-333-6.
• 천둥 꼬마 선녀 번개 꼬마 선녀 ("Thunder little fairy, lightning little fairy"), Munhakdongne, 2007, ISBN 978-89-546-0279-2.
• 눈물상자 ("Tear box"), Munhakdongne, 2008, ISBN 978-89-546-0581-6.

Poetry

• 서랍에 저녁을 넣어 두었다 ("I put dinner in the drawer"), Moonji, 2013, ISBN 978-89-320-2463-9.

Essays

• 사랑과, 사랑을 둘러싼 것들 ("Love and things surrounding love"), Yolimwon, 2003, ISBN 978-89-7063-369-5.
• 가만가만 부르는 노래 ("A song to sing calmly"), Bichae, 2007, ISBN 978-89-92036-27-6.

Adaptations

Baby Buddha and The Vegetarian have been made into films. Lim Woo-Seong wrote and directed Vegetarian, which was released in 2009. It was one of only 14 selections (out of 1,022 submissions) included in the World Narrative Competition of the North American Film Fest, and was noticed at the Busan International Film Festival.

Lim also adapted Baby Buddha into a screenplay, in collaboration with Han, and directed the film version. Titled Scars, it was released in 2011.

See also

• Korean literature
• List of Korean novelists
• List of Korean-language poets
• List of Korean women writers
• List of Nobel laureates in Literature

External links

• Official website
• Andoza:Nobelprize
• Kang, Han „Han Kang: 'One year I couldn't bear fiction and read astrophysics instead'“. The Guardian (2023-yil 28-aprel). Qaraldi: 2023-yil 23-iyun.
• Zhou, Dennis (Yanvar 30, 2023). „Han Kang on How Language Misses Its Mark“. The New Yorker. Qaraldi: Iyun 23, 2023.