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Han Kang

Novelist; Nobel laureate in Literature 2024

South Korea · b. 1970

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South Korean novelist, author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts, awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Question Which writers or artists most influenced your work? Taste & recommendation read 41 other answers →
For me, since when I was a child, all writers have been collective. They are searching meanings in life. Sometimes they are lost and sometimes they are determined and all their efforts and all their strengths have been my inspiration. So it’s very difficult for me to pick some names of the inspiration. It’s very difficult for me.
Recorded Nobel Prize telephone interview with Jenny Rydén, published by Nobel Prize Outreach, The Nobel Prize, 10 October 2024 source ↗

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