Saito Mariko, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, announced the Literature Translation Institute of Korea on Thursday.

Kang’s novels offer an important lens for understanding Korean history and politics, and the grief and strength of the Korean people.

In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them, but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three ...

Han Kang has become the first South Korean writer and only the 18th woman in more than 100 years to be awarded the Nobel ...

Among the six works on the shortlist in 2016 was a short novel in three parts, by a 46-year-old poet and creative writing teacher from Korea named Han Kang. The Vegetarian tells the story of a young ...

Major South Korean bookstores sold out of author Han Kang's books Friday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of local publishers soared following her historic Nobel Prize win. The first ...

SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Yonhap) -- Han Kang, this year's Nobel Prize laureate in literature, said South Korea's political turmoil following President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived martial law declaration is ...

Han Kang's alma mater Yonsei University bustled with pride following the author winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, with banners adorned across the campus and students celebrating. "We send ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...

People watch a television broadcast about Korean author Han Kang winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature at Seoul Station ...