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 ...
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 ...
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.” ...
Nobel laureate in literature Han Kang speaks during this year's Nobel Prize lecture in literature at the Swedish Academy on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden. (Pontus Lundahl/TT News ...
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 ...