(Nobel Prize in Literature)
South Korean novelist Han Kang, who gained the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday, stated she’s going to “have a good time quietly tonight” having tea together with her son.
“I am so stunned and I am completely honored,” Han stated in a telephone interview with the Swedish Academy in a video launched shortly after the profitable announcement.
Han stated she had simply completed dinner together with her son at house in Seoul, they usually have been each very stunned by the information.
“I did not work immediately. I simply learn a bit, rested and took a stroll. It was a type of straightforward day for me,” she stated.
The 53-year-old writer stated she “grew up with Korean literature” and added that each one the writers have been a collective inspiration for her. She hoped that the information could be a pleasant shock for Korean literature readers and fellow writers.
For somebody simply discovering her works, Han urged beginning together with her newest e-book, “I Do Not Bid Farewell” (revealed in Korean in 2021). The novel marks Han’s return to the literary scene 5 years after clinching the Worldwide Booker Prize within the UK in 2016.
Its French version gained the distinguished Prix Medicis for overseas literature in France final yr, and the English version can also be underway.
“I believe each author likes his or her most up-to-date books,” she stated.
“This e-book might be a place to begin, and ‘Human Acts’ is immediately related (to this e-book).”
Han talked about in an interview with The Korea Herald final yr that “she sees the 2 books — ‘Human Acts’ and ‘I Do Not Bid Farewell’ — as a pair” : the previous in regards to the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Rebellion and the latter in regards to the Jeju April 3 Incident.
