Ms Han’s book and her Nobel prize are “catalysts” for renewed interest in the tragedy, says Chon Yeong-mi of the Jeju History ...

Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories.

The longlist of 13 novels for the world’s most prestigious award for translated fiction was announced on Tuesday.

There’s a strong sense of déjà vu in Han Kang’s We Do Not Part, the first novel in translation since her 2024 Nobel Prize win. Like in The Vegetarian, the protagonist here is of fragile physical ...

Only one of the 13 titles nominated for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English is more than 300 pages long ...

In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them, but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three ...

If you listen to Republican legislators or groups like Moms for Liberty, you might consider what I have done to be obscene, ...

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...

We Do Not Part by South Korean writer Han Kang asks difficult questions about the troubled history of her nation.