There’s a strong sense of déjà vu in Han Kang’s We Do Not Part, the first novel in translation since her 2024 Nobel Prize win ...

She connects the victims of atrocities with those who remember. Her novel “We Do Not Part” is now out in an English language ...

Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories.

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...

The writer arrives in Seoul during the Gwangju massacre, witnessing widespread fear under martial law. Decades later, the ...

In Han Kang’s latest novel ... since being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in October. An English translation of the novel set on Jeju, “We Do Not Part,” has been released in the ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The longlist of the International Booker Prize 2025, which ...

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 ...

received the Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize was awarded for Han Kang’s “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”: a description ...

As with all the Nobel Prize-winning South Korean writer’s stories, We Do Not Part rejects escapism to reach into the painful lives of strangers. By Megan Walsh When Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in ...