By DANIEL NIEMANN, JILL LAWLESS and MIKE CORDER STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Nobel committee chairman Anders Olsson praised Han’s “physical empathy for […]


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Originally Published: <time datetime="2024-10-10 03:32:07">October 10, 2024 at 3:32 a.m.</time>

By DANIEL NIEMANN, JILL LAWLESS and MIKE CORDER STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for what the Nobel committee called “her…{ai:summary}<p>South Korean author Han Kang received the Nobel Prize in Literature for her poetic prose that addresses historical traumas and the fragility of human life. The Nobel committee highlighted her ability to convey deep empathy through her work.  </p><p>#culture</p>

Nobel Prize in literature is awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her ‘intense poetic prose’

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