Snow is a metaphor throughout her writing. Snow covers over the trauma of political violence and painful memories. It ...

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

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

If you listen to Republican legislators or groups like Moms for Liberty, you might consider what I have done to be obscene, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Ebrahimi will move to Riverhead Books from Hogarth Books, where she has worked since 2017, and edited such author-winning ...

This novel, from last year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is the stand-out publication of the month. Han Kang’s style is ...

We Do Not Part is Han’s first novel to come out in an English translation after her Nobel Prize win. Read more at ...

Han Kang – winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2024 – is among those who would rather remember, both to bear witness to the previously nameless dead and to warn against the dangers of ...