Han is the primary South Korean winner of the prize, who was described by the Nobel Prize board as somebody who has “devoted herself to music and artwork”.
The assertion additionally added that her work crosses boundaries by exploring a broad span of genres – these embody violence, grief and patriarchy.
A turning level for her profession got here in 2016, when she gained the Worldwide Man Booker prize for The Vegetarian – a guide which had been launched almost a decade earlier than, however was first translated into English in 2015 by Deborah Smith.
It depicts the violent penalties for a girl who refuses to undergo the norms of meals consumption.
Han’s different works embody The White E-book, Human Acts and Greek Classes.
Swedish Academy everlasting secretary Mats Malm stated on the ceremony that “she wasn’t actually ready” to win the prize.
He added: “She has a novel consciousness of the connections between physique and soul, the residing and the useless and in her poetic and experimental type, has turn into an innovator in up to date prose”.
Han is the primary feminine recipient of the literature prize since 2022, when it was awarded to French author Annie Ernaux.
She can also be the primary feminine Nobel laureate this yr.
