2024-10-16 05:56:00
At least 1.06 million books by author Han Kang have been sold in South Korea since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Oct. 10.
Books by South Korean author Han Kang, who recently won the Nobel Prize for literature, have sold more than a million copies locally as of last week, three of the country’s major bookstores told AFP on Wednesday morning.
At least 1.06 million books (including e-books) by Han Kang have been sold since she was awarded the Nobel Prize last Thursday, said Kyobo, Aladin and YES24, three major South Korean bookstores and online retailers .
“Han Kang’s books are experiencing unprecedented sales. This is a situation we have never seen before,” Kim Hyun-jung, a spokesperson for Kyobo, told AFP.
A “poetic prose of intent”
The first Asian woman to win this literary prize, the 53-year-old writer was awarded “for her intense poetic prose that addresses historical trauma and lays bare the fragility of human life.”
She is known abroad above all for her novel The Vegetarianwinner of the Man Booker Prize in 2016, and which tells the story of a woman’s radical change in eating habits after violent nightmares, with disastrous consequences for her married life and her mental health.
According to the brand specializing in the sale of new and used books Aladin, Han Kang’s Nobel has multiplied the sales of his books by 1,200 compared to the same period last year, and South Korean literature as a whole by 12.
Local media reported that some printing shops were operating at full capacity, especially over the weekend, to meet demand. “I have never been so busy since I joined the company in 2006,” one Aladin employee told AFP.
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