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한강 (South Korean writer)

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한강
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Date of birth
1970-11-27
Place of birth
Gwangju

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Han Kang (Korean: 한강; born 27 November 1970) is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016. Han is the first Asian woman and Korean to be a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving the award in 2024 in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".

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NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Die Vegetarierin (7. edition)Paperback978-3-7466-3333-62024
Die Vegetarierin (1. edition)Hardcover978-3-7466-3760-02020
VegetaristiHardcover978-951-24-0493-32017-03-03
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kanghan
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7231097
Wikidata ID
Q5646626

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2025-10-03