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Lost for Words: Reading Nobel Prize Winner Han Kang
1 month ago

Lost for Words: Reading Nobel Prize Winner Han Kang

The Diplomat  

There seems to be nothing connecting Han Kang and Brandon Sanderson. Han Kang’s story-telling is simple but her style is elaborate – the reverse is true for Sanderson. This time, Sanderson broke the writing rules he so lucidly laid out in his lectures – including one of the core mantras of fiction writing: “Show, don’t tell.” And even though critics …

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Newsletter on Han Kang and the Gothic novel
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Newsletter on Han Kang and the Gothic novel

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 07, 2024 16:58 IST - 4 MINS READ Dear Reader, “She was standing, motionless, in front of the fridge. South Korean author Han Kang’s book, The Vegetarian, from where the lines are quoted, could well be a horror novel in the Gothic tradition. Written 230 years ago, Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, considered an exemplary Gothic …

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Han Kang's Nobel prize win sheds light on Gwangju uprising, a dark chapter in South Korean history
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Han Kang's Nobel prize win sheds light on Gwangju uprising, a dark chapter in South Korean history

ABC  

When Han Kang was nine years old, a massacre of civilians by soldiers in her hometown of Gwangju drastically reshaped the course of South Korean history. Lee said the book became a "thorn in the side of the military dictatorship", which gave in to people's demands for democratic elections in 1988. For Jay Song, from the Korean Research Centre at …

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What to know about Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature
2 months, 1 week ago

What to know about Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature

LA Times  

Many of Han Kang’s novels are intimate portraits of violence inflicted on ordinary lives, spanning both South Korea’s long history of authoritarian rule and feminist struggles of the present. “It used to be that Han Kang was known as Han Sung-won’s daughter, but now I’ve become Han Sung-won, the father of Han Kang,” he said in an interview in 2016. …

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South Koreans react with joy and amazement at writer Han Kang’s Nobel win
2 months, 2 weeks ago

South Koreans react with joy and amazement at writer Han Kang’s Nobel win

LA Times  

A TV screen shows an image of the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, South Korean writer Han Kang, during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul on Thursday. South Koreans reacted with joy and astonishment on Thursday after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature, an unexpected moment that stoked …

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Han Kang: ‘That will be a problem when I die – I won’t be able to finish all my ideas’
1 year, 7 months ago

Han Kang: ‘That will be a problem when I die – I won’t be able to finish all my ideas’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “I didn’t take Greek lessons either,” says Han, who is an easy conversationalist and generous …

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The best new books released in April, as selected by avid readers and critics
1 year, 7 months ago

The best new books released in April, as selected by avid readers and critics

ABC  

Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans and critics Declan Fry and Cher Tan. The resulting list features a story of female coming-of-age set inside Warhol's Factory; an "autobiography of the audience" that asks if we can enjoy the art of bad people; a freewheeling historical fiction …

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Why ‘The Vegetarian’ author Han Kang’s newly translated novel is her gutsiest yet
1 year, 8 months ago

Why ‘The Vegetarian’ author Han Kang’s newly translated novel is her gutsiest yet

LA Times  

Review Greek Lessons By Han Kang Translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won Hogarth: 192 pages, $26 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The scarred strangers in “Greek Lessons,” Kang’s fourth novel to be translated into English from Korean, move from isolation to connection …

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