Nobel Prize in Literature 2024

Published on October 11, 2024

On Thursday, 10 October 2024, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature to Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

Han Kang – Credit: Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

 

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