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 Gary Doak / eyevine ...

In 2016, the South Korean novelist Han Kang won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, the first of her novels to be translated into English. The novel, in which a woman who suddenly ...

Han Kang's Nobel Prize victory has sparked expectations that her literature will be adapted for the screen and stage.

Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee ...

“Are there any more writers like Han Kang or [Korean] novels similar to hers?” This was the sentiment expressed by several editors from various publishers around the world who visited the ...

The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

We Do Not Part is the very best kind of story-telling, poetic and ambiguous without ever shying away from horrible historic truths.

When the Nobel committee recognized Han Kang in October for her body of work exploring “the fragility of human life,” it could not have known how relevant the theme would feel in South Korea ...

The author, who has never shied away from criticizing Korean culture, has also given South Korea its first Nobel Prize in Literature.

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.