Han’s English-language debut (championed by her young British translator, Deborah Smith) begins with a deceptively placid sentence: “Before my wife turned vegetarian, I’d always thought of ...

Nobel Prize winner Han Kang speaks during a press conference in 2023. [YONHAP] Official poster of 2011 film “Scars,” an adaptation of the short story “Child Buddha” from Han Kang's ...

[Read: Han Kang’s transgressive art] Kyungha comes up with a project that she thinks will exorcize it. She will collaborate with a friend, Inseon, a documentary filmmaker, on an art film.

German publisher Aufbau put five of Han Kang’s books, including “The Vegetarian,” at the very front of its display. On one wall was a giant poster, featuring a photograph of Han, ...

Han Kang is a private person. ... Art leaves too much out, removes the worst details and allows the intangible — dreams, memories, nightmares — to slip through your fingers.

Han Kang grew up in Seoul, a city that embraces “thousands of years of turbulence.” She recommends reading that draws from the various eras that have made up her hometown.

Han Kang’s Transgressive Art. The author, who has never shied away from criticizing Korean culture, has also given South Korea its first Nobel Prize in Literature. By Ed Park.

Read: Han Kang’s transgressive art. Kyungha comes up with a project that she thinks will exorcize it. She will collaborate with a friend, Inseon, a documentary filmmaker, on an art film.