Author Han Kwang, from South Korea, scooped the 2024 Literature Nobel Prize.
The 53-year-old fiction-story writer is the first Korean and 18th woman to win the Nobel Literature Prize for The Vegetarian piece. Han Kwang was awarded for her intense poetic prose confronting historical traumas while exposing human life’s fragility.
The Vegetarian, published in 2007 and translated to English in 2015 and 2016, portrays the patriarchal sovereignty over the female body oozing ecofeminist and anti-capitalist uprising. Like its title, the book comprises nuances of vegetarianism as the protagonist woman fights against food intake norms.
Han Kwang was also awarded the International Man Booker Prize for the same book in 2017. Han Kwang’s writing ability runs in their bloodline as her father, Han Seung Won, is also a celebrated novelist in South Korea. Before debuting as a fiction short story writer in 1995 with Love of Yeosu, Han Kwang published her first pieces, five poems in the Literature and Society magazine, in 1993.
The celebrated writer is currently working on her sixth novel. Some of Han Kwang’s most notable pieces include 2023’s Convalescence and 2014’s Human Acts. Han Kwang is the second Korean national to win a Nobel Prize after the Late former President Kim Dae Jung who scooped the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his democracy restoration efforts.
We want to offer our congratulations to author Han Kwang.
—-Karen Mwenda
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