Major South Korean bookstores sell out of author Han Kang's books, as sales skyrocket and the share price of local publishers soar following her historic Nobel Prize win.
Han makes history as the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, drawing significant public attention to her works.Major South Korean bookstores have sold out of author Han Kang 's books following her historical Nobel Prize win.The Swedish Academy says Han is recognised for her "intense poetic prose" that confronted historical traumas.Share article
The 53-year-old was honoured with the Nobel "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life", the Swedish Academy said. "Since there has never been a Nobel Prize-winning work in the Korean language, I think readers are both excited and somewhat unaccustomed to this very happy situation."
After graduating from Yonsei University with a major in Korean literature, Han worked for a literary journal before making her debut in 1993 with a collection of poems, followed by a collection of short stories. Han's father Han Seung-won, who is also a novelist, said he initially could not believe the news of his daughter's win."I responded: 'Are you being misled by some fake news?'""There's nothing to discard in Kang's novels. Each one is a masterpiece."Asked to describe Han as a writer in one sentence, her father said: "She is a good young novelist who writes with poetic sensibility".
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