
Han Kang Calls for Unity in 'Age of Hate'
Nobel laureate Han Kang addressed reporters, emphasizing the need to overcome deepening hatred in South Korea and globally, calling it a critical challenge.
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Nobel laureate Han Kang addressed reporters, emphasizing the need to overcome deepening hatred in South Korea and globally, calling it a critical challenge.
A new book by author Han Kang is discussed, described as an exploration of the writer's own journey to salvation, where writing serves as a means to connect with others.
Foreign writers, including Ali Smith and Han Kang, are boycotting the Grasset publishing house, owned by Vincent Bolloré, due to its perceived shift to the right, while 600 film professionals also express concerns about the expansion of Bolloré's media empire.
Long before her international breakthrough, Han Kang formulated her literary world through poems, where twilight blurs all boundaries in an exploration of what it means to be – or cease to be – alive.

Han Kang's novels, 'The Vegetarian' and 'Human Acts,' were identified as South Korea's bestselling books over the past decade by Kyobo Bookstore, a list released to commemorate World Book and Copyright Day.
2024 Nobel Literature Prize winner Han Kang spoke with La Vanguardia in London about her new novel, exploring the shared fundamental questions between science and art.
Following its technological exports and entertainment wave, South Korea is now seeing its literature gain widespread global recognition, a trend partly driven by Han Kang's Nobel Prize.
The 80th Avignon Festival is transforming into a 'great festival of questions,' featuring Korean as the guest language, Isabelle Huppert reinterpreting a Han Kang novel, and Brazilian artists like Lia Rodrigues and Wagner Moura.
South Korean author Han Kang's novel 'We Do Not Part,' which hauntingly portrays trauma, has won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award.
Korean Pavilion at Venice Biennale seeks comfort through art, with Han Kang's sculpture of blackened trees Yonhap News Agency

The Korean author's novel, "We Do Not Part," published in 2021, which recalls the Jeju uprising that ended with the massacre of tens of thousands, is now available in Hungarian.

Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang's children's story, 'The Box of Tears,' has been adapted into an original choral music theater production by the National Chorus of Korea.

A report on Korean bestseller lists in 2026 indicates a shift from Han Kang's Nobel Prize-winning works to a new wave of Korean and international authors.

Nobel Prize-winning writer Han Kang is scheduled to give a reading from her latest work with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Kammermusiksaal in September.

International authors, including Nobel laureate Han Kang, are leaving the French publishing house Grasset in protest, stating they refuse to be exploited for political purposes by the extreme right.
Catalonia celebrated the annual Sant Jordi festival, a major cultural event dedicated to books and roses, featuring author signings, literary discussions, and widespread public festivities across the region. The celebration saw high sales for authors and various related events.

South Korean author Han Kang, a Nobel laureate, has been recognized as the country's most commercially successful writer of the past decade, with her novels securing the top two spots on a cumulative bestseller list.

Nine Korean productions, including those by Han Kang, have been officially invited to perform at the prestigious Avignon Festival in France this July. This marks the first time Korean works have received an official invitation to the event.

Han Kang and Arundhati Roy were among the notable authors who received annual awards from US book critics.
US book critics have recognized and honored Nobel laureate and South Korean novelist Han Kang for her literary contributions.

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Chaekbang Onul (Bookstore Today), the independent bookstore previously run by Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang in Jongno-gu, Seoul, announced its closure on Tuesday after eight years of operation.

A philosophical meditation delves into the themes of memory and trauma as central pillars in the works of author Han Kang, highlighting how the past remains fragmented and present.

Several prominent foreign authors, including Nobel laureate Han Kang, have announced they will no longer submit works to Grasset following the dismissal of its CEO, expressing deep concern for the publishing house's future.

Han Kang’s novel "The Vegetarian" has been selected as the readers’ favorite winner of the International Booker Prize in a 10th-anniversary poll conducted by the Booker Prize Foundation. The book topped the vote, according to a recent report from the foundation.

South Korean writer Han Kang, a Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, visited Barcelona for Sant Jordi celebrations and shared her perspective that not reading makes individuals inflexible and limits their feelings.
A review of Nobel laureate Han Kang's sparkling novel "Ink and Blood," where everything is obsessively interconnected.

The Avignon Festival has selected Korean as its official guest language for its 2026 edition, with actress Isabelle Huppert scheduled to read works by author Han Kang among other Korean productions.

South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang has won the prestigious National Book Critics Circle fiction prize for her novel 'We Do Not Part,' which explores the 1948 Jeju massacre, with the award announced at the NBCC's annual ceremony in New York.

Divadlo v Dlouhé in Prague is undergoing an artistic restart, marked by its third production of the season: an adaptation of South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang's novel 'The Vegetarian'.

This prose work from the Nobel literature winner opens up her novels and offers beautiful imagery When Korean novelist Han Kang won the Nobel prize in literature in 2024, the committee praised her…