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Han Kang (Author) Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet and was first published as novelist in 1994. Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian and was shortlisted for The White Book, alongside her translator, Deborah Smith. Han has also won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today''s Young Artist Award and the Manhae Literary Prize. She taught in the department of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts for eleven years before leaving in 2018 to focus on writing.e. yaewon (Translator) e. yaewon translates from and into Korean. Most recently, she translated Hwang Jungeun''s dd''s Umbrella and Maggie Nelson''s The Argonauts and co-translated Han Kang''s Greek Lessons and Samuel Beckett''s Selected Shorter Plays.Paige Aniyah Morris (Translator) Paige Aniyah Morris divides her time between the United States and Korea. Recent translations include works by Pak Kyongni, Ji-min Lee, and Chang Kang-myoung.>
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet and published her first short story in 1994. She won the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian and was shortlisted for The White Book. In 2024, Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’.
Among other major awards and prizes she is the winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger 2023 for the French edition of We Do Not Part. She taught in the department of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts for eleven years before leaving in 2018 to focus on writing. She is the fifth writer to contribute to the ongoing Future Library project in Oslo, Norway.
e. yaewon translates from and into Korean. Most recently, she translated Hwang Jungeun's dd's Umbrella and Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts and co-translated Han Kang's Greek Lessons and Samuel Beckett's Selected Shorter Plays.Paige Morris divides her time between the United States and Korea. Recent translations include works by Pak Kyongni, Ji-min Lee, and Chang Kang-myoung.
