Han Kang wins the Nobel in Literature
The first Asian woman and the first South Korean to take the prize.
- When
- Known to
- ± 12 hours
- Era
- Contemporary, Holocene
- Where
- Seoul, South Korea · 37.5665° N, 126.9780° E
Awarded on 10 October 2024 for prose the academy called intensely poetic and confronting historical trauma, notably the Gwangju uprising in Human Acts and the Jeju massacres in We Do Not Part. Her books sold over a million copies in South Korea within a week. Earlier laureates in this period were Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux, Jon Fosse and, in 2025, Laszlo Krasznahorkai.