Seoul, Oct 17, 2024 (AFP) - S Korean Nobel winner Han Kang hopes daily life 'won't change much'

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2024-10-17

Author Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature said Thursday that she hoped her daily life would not change too much after her historic honour. The short story writer and novelist is best known overseas for her Man Booker Prize-winning "The Vegetarian", her first novel translated into English. The 53-year-old, who also became the first Asian woman author to win the Nobel, was chosen "for her intense poetic prose tha......

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