South Korean writer Han Gang wins the Nobel Prize for Literature

The report states that Gan has a “unique understanding of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead.” The Nobel Committee also highlighted that the writer, with her poetic and experimental style, became an innovator of modern prose.

Han Gang is 53 years old and teaches creative writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts. In 2016 he received the Booker Prize for his novel The Vegetarian.

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