2024-10-10 11:03:00
South Korean Han Kang, 53, succeeds Norwegian Jon Fosse, a playwright, novelist and children’s book author who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023.
An award that according to Alfred Nobel rewards a writer who has rendered great services to humanity. The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded on Thursday 10 October by Stockholm to the South Korean Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that addresses historical traumas and lays bare the fragility of human life”. She is the first South Korean to win the literature prize.
He began his career in 1993 with the publication of poems in the magazine Literature and society then with the new items in the collection Yeosu’s love in 1995, the winner “had a major international success” with the novel The Vegetarian in 2007. In this triptych, the protagonist decides to change her diet and faces violent reactions from those around her and from society.
In addition to writing, Han Kang, born in 1970, also dedicates himself to art and music, which is reflected in all his literary production, writes the committee in a press release. Like in his novel Your cold hands published in 2002 or the novel of intrigue, which combines art and friendship, The wind blows, move forward.
“An innovator of contemporary prose”
The author also has a penchant for extreme life stories. In the book Greek lessonspublished in 2011, it paints a portrait of a relationship between a young woman who, following a series of traumatic experiences, has lost the use of speech, and her ancient Greek teacher who was losing the ability to speak.
In Human actsin 2016, Han Kang focuses on “a historical event that occurred in the city of Gwangju, where she herself grew up and where hundreds of students and unarmed civilians were murdered during a massacre perpetrated by the South Korean army in 1980.
“Han Kang confronts historical trauma and invisible rules in her work and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life,” writes on X. “In her poetic and experimental style, she has become an innovator of contemporary prose.
More than one prize up for grabs: peace
In 2023 he was a novelist, essayist, poet, author of children’s books and above all playwright, Jon Fossewho was awarded this prestigious award.
Since the creation of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901, France can boast of being the most awarded country with 16 winners, it is noted Weekly books. With two writers crowned in the last ten years: Patrick Modiano in 2014 and Annie Ernaux in 2022.
Three Nobel Prizes have already been awarded since the beginning of the week. American biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were honored with the prize Nobel Prize for Medicine this Monday “for the discovery of a fundamental principle that regulates the regulation of genetic activity”.
This Tuesday it was the American John Hopfield and the Anglo-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton who were awarded the prize Nobel Prize for Physics “for their fundamental discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
Last Wednesday, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for their work on “protein structure prediction” using artificial intelligence.
The highly anticipated Nobel Peace Prize remains this Friday. The only prize awarded in Oslo.
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