The Nobel Prize For Literature Goes To A South Korean Author Han, a short story writer and novelist, who is best known for his book The Vegetarian. The book, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2016, is his first novel translated into English. The book, written in three parts, details one woman’s decision to stop eating meat and the devastating consequences it has on her personal life.
Han’s 2014 novel Human Acts is inspired by the 1980 genocide by the South Korean military. It is about the death of a young man amid a democratic uprising. Two years later she published ‘The White Book’. The book is dedicated to his elder sister who passed away hours after birth. In the said book, the academy mentioned about his ‘poetic style’.
The Academy described Hahn’s 2010 book The Wind Blows, Go as a “complicated novel about friendship and artistry, in which sadness and a strong desire for change are strongly present.” Han was one of more than 9,000 artists blacklisted for criticizing Park’s government during Park Geun-hye’s presidency from 2013 to 2017.
