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Books by the South Korean writer Han Kang displayed at the Swedish Academy after announcement that the South Korean writer Han Kang will be awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Photo: EPA/JESSICA GOW via PAP/EPA.

Han Kang becomes the first Korean to receive Nobel Prize in Literature

South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the award-giving body said on Thursday.