South Korean writer Han Kang acquired the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.
After three days of Nobel Prizes honoring work in science, the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee introduced on Thursday (October 10, 2024) the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. She is the primary South Korean author to win the coveted award.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historic traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the Academy stated.
Han Kang was born in 1970 within the South Korean metropolis of Gwangju earlier than, on the age of 9, transferring together with his household to Seoul. He comes from a literary background, his father being a famend novelist. Parallel to his writing, he has additionally devoted himself to artwork and music, which is mirrored in all his literary manufacturing, says the Academy’s assertion.
He started his profession in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems within the South Korean journal. Literature and society. His prose debut got here in 1995 with the quick story assortment ‘Yeosu love‘.
His biggest worldwide breakthrough got here with the novel ‘The Vegetarian’. The three-part novel portrays the violent penalties that happen when its protagonist Yeong-hye refuses to undergo meals consumption laws. His resolution to not eat meat provokes numerous and fully totally different reactions.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian writer Jon Fosse “for his progressive works and prose that give voice to the unspeakable.” Whereas in 2022, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French writer Annie Ernaux “for the braveness and medical acuity with which she exposes the roots, distances and collective limitations of non-public reminiscence.”
This 12 months the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for decoding the design and buildings of proteins.
The Nobel bulletins started on Monday (October 7, 2024) with Individuals Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun profitable the medication prize. Two founding fathers of machine studying, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, received the physics prize on Tuesday (October 8, 2024).
The Nobel Peace Prize will probably be introduced on Friday (October 11, 2024) and the Economics Prize on October 14.
The prize features a money endowment of 11 million Swedish crowns ($1 million) from a legacy left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Laureates are invited to just accept their awards at a ceremony to be held on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s demise.
(with contributions from AP)
Revealed – October 10, 2024 04:32 pm IST