When the Nobel committee recognized Han Kang in October for her body of work exploring “the fragility of human life,” it could not have known how relevant the theme ...
The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...
Nobel literature committee member Anna-Karin Palm said Han writes about “trauma, pain and loss,” whether individual or collective, “with the same compassion and care.” ...
When Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, appears on the screen, there is an air of slight impatience about him as he waits for the interview to begin. After accepting ...