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Han Kang was born in Gwangju in the winter of 1970. She began her literary career in 1993 when she published five poems, including “Winter in Seoul,” in the winter issue of Literature and Society. The following year, her short story “The Scarlet Anchor” was selected in the Seoul Shinmun’s New Writer’s Award marking her official debut as a writer. Her short story collections include Yeosu, Fruits of My Woman, and Fire Salamander. Her novels include Black Deer, Your Cold Hands, The Vegetarian, Ink and Blood, Greek Lessons, Human Acts, The White Book, and We Do Not Part. She has also published poetry collections I Put the Evening in the Drawer and the essay Light and Thread. She has received numerous literary honors, including the Today’s Young Artist Award, the Yi Sang Literary Award, the Dongni Literary Award, the Manhae Prize for Literature, the Hwang Sun-won Literary Award, the Kim Yu-jeong Literary Award, the Kim Man-jung Literary Award, the Daesan Literary Award, the International Booker Prize, the Malaparte Prize, the San Clemente Literary Prize, the Prix Médicis étranger, and the Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature. She was also selected as a contributing author to the Future Library project of Norway and in 2024, she became the first Korean writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

★ The 2016 International Booker Prize(U.K.)
★ The 2017 Malaparte Prize(Italy)
★ The 2019 San Clemente Literary Prize(Spain)
★ The 2023 Prix Médicis(France)
★ The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature(Sweden)