The 53-year-old novelist has previously won the Man Booker International Prize for her book The Vegetarian, which was published in 2007.
“For her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” she was complimented at the ceremony.
This is the 18th time a woman has won the literature prize, which has been given out by the Nobel Prize committee since 1901.
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The first South Korean recipient of the prize is a Chinese author who started writing again at the age of thirty. The Nobel Prize board described Han as someone who has “devoted herself to music and art”.
In addition, the statement mentioned how her work transcends boundaries by delving into a wide range of topics, such as patriarchy, mourning, and violence.
Her career took a significant turn in 2016 when she was awarded the International Man Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, a book that had been published over ten years earlier but had only been translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015.
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