SEOUL (Reuters) - Han Kang, South Korea's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was slow to secure global acclaim, ...

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SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han ...

A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Europe, Han is the first Asian ...

Major South Korean bookstores sold out of author Han Kang's books Friday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of local ...

South Koreans flocked to book stores on Friday and crashed websites in a frenzy to snap up copies of the work of novelist Han ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that ...

The morning after writer Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, South Koreans queued at bookstores in Seoul and ...

A reader takes a photo of works by Korean writer Han Kang at a local bookstore after the author's Nobel Prize win on Oct. 11, ...

Han Kang is the author of novels including Human Acts, Greek Lessons, Your Cold Hands, The Wind Blows, The Vegetarian and ...

From the South Korean writer’s connection to Latin America to her dislike of the spotlight, here are some anecdotes about the ...