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South Korea's Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
2024-10-11
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The name of the Nobel Prize laureate in literature was announced in Stockholm on Thursday — it is South Korean writer Han Kang, the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy of Sciences reported in a press release.

"For her intense, poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life," the press release said.

Han Kang became the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Han Kang was born in 1970 in Gwangju. She began her writing career with the publication of five poems in the magazine Society and Literature in 1993. Kang's first collection of short stories, Yeosu's Love, was published in 1995.

In 2023, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, and in 2022, to French writer Annie Ernaux.

Earlier, Regnum News Agency wrote that on October 9, the Nobel Committee announced the names of the laureates in the field of chemistry. They were American scientist David Baker and Google employees Demis Hassabis and John Jumper. Baker received the prize for the synthesis of a new protein. Hassabis and Jumper developed a model based on artificial intelligence, with the help of which the structure of all proteins in the human body was determined.
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Posted by:badanov

#3  The Hugo winners used to be wonderful, when they really were readers’ choice. But once the Hugos became the private preserve of an in-group clique, they became pretentious and uninteresting. I watched when the Sad Puppies tried so hard to rescue the award, but in the end they gave up.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-10-11 22:36  

#2  If you ever decide to try, don’t start with Patrick White.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2024-10-11 22:09  

#1  Never read a Nobel lit laureate book. In fact, I've stopped reading Hugo books.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-10-11 02:44  

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