Han Kang

Han Kang (Korean: 한강; born 27 November 1970) is a South Korean writer. She is best known for
the novel The Vegetarian, which traces a woman's mental illness and neglect from her family. In
2016, it became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction. In
2024, Han became the first South Korean writer and the first female Asian writer to be awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Early life and education

Han Kang is the daughter of novelist Han Seung-won.[1] She was born on 27 November 1970[2] in
Gwangju and moved to Suyu-ri in Seoul at a young age.[2] Her father struggled to make ends meet
with his writing career, which negatively impacted his family. Han later described her childhood as
"too much for a little child"; however, being surrounded by books gave her comfort.[3]

Han studied Korean literature at Yonsei University.[2] In 1998, she was enrolled at the University of
Iowa International Writing Program.[2][4]

Career

Han's literary career began when five of her poems, including "Winter in Seoul", were featured in
the Winter 1993 issue of the quarterly Literature and Society. She made her fiction debut the next
year, when her short story "The Scarlet Anchor" was the winning entry in the Seoul Shinmun Spring
Literary Contest. Her first story collection, A Love of Yeosu, was published in 1995 and attracted
attention for its precise and tightly narrated composition.[5]

In 2007, Han published a book, A Song to Sing Calmly, that was accompanied by a music album.
At first she did not intend to sing, but Han Jung Rim, a musician and music director, insisted that
Han Kang record the songs herself.[6]

In her college years Han became obsessed with a line of poetry by the Korean modernist poet Yi
Sang: "I believe that humans should be plants."[1] She understood Yi's line to imply a defensive
stance against the violence of Korea's colonial history under Japanese occupation, and took it as
an inspiration to write her most successful work, The Vegetarian. The second part of the novel,
Mongolian Mark, won the Yi Sang Literary Award. The rest of the series (The Vegetarian and Fire
Tree) was delayed by contractual problems.[1]

The Vegetarian was Han's first novel translated into English, although she had already attracted
worldwide attention by the time Deborah Smith translated it.[7] There has been some controversy
over the translation, as scholars have detected mistakes in it; among other things, there is concern
that Smith attributed some of the dialogue to
Han Kang
the wrong characters.[8] The translated work
won the International Booker Prize 2016 for
both Han and Smith. Han was the first Korean
to be nominated for the award, and, in its
English translation, it was the first Korean
language novel to win the International Booker
Prize for fiction.[9][10][11][12] The Vegetarian was
also chosen as one of "The 10 Best Books of
2016" by The New York Times Book Review.[13]

Han's third novel, The White Book, was

shortlisted for the 2018 International Booker
Prize.[14]
Han Kang in 2017

Han's novel Human Acts was released in

Born 27 November 1970
January 2016 by Portobello Books.[15][16] Han Gwangju, South
received the Premio Malaparte for the Italian Jeolla Province,
South Korea
translation of Human Acts, Atti Umani, by
Adelphi Edizioni, in Italy on 1 October Occupation Writer

2017.[17][18] Her 2017 autobiographical novel Alma mater Yonsei University

The White Book centers on the loss of her older
Genre Fiction
sister, a baby who died two hours after her
birth.[19] Notable works The Vegetarian
Human Acts
Han's novel We Do Not Part was published in
Notable awards Yi Sang Literary
2021. It tells the story of a writer researching Award
the 1948–49 Jeju uprising and its impact on 2005
International Booker
her friend's family. The French translation of
Prize
the novel won the Prix Médicis Étranger in 2016
2023.[20] Prix Médicis étranger
2023
In 2023, Han's fourth full-length novel, Greek Nobel Prize in
Literature
Lessons, was translated into English. The
2024
Atlantic called it a book in which "words are
both insufficient and too powerful to tame".[21] Spouse Hong Yong-hee

Parents Han Seung-won

Personal life (father)

Han's husband is Hong Yong-hee, a professor Korean name

at Kyunghee Cyber University.[22][23] Han has a

son, with whom she was having dinner at the Hangul 한강
[24]
time of receiving news of her Nobel Prize.
Hanja 韓江
Han has said that she suffers from periodic
Revised Han Gang
migraines, and credits them with "keeping her
Romanization
humble".[19]
McCune–Reischauer Han Kang
Awards and recognition
Website

Han won the Yi Sang Literary Award (2005) for www.han-kang.net (http://www.han-kang.ne

Mongolian Mark,[25] the 25th Korean Novel t/)

Award for her novella Baby Buddha in 1999, the

2000 Today's Young Artist Award, and the 2010 Dong-in Literary Award for Breath Fighting.[26]

In 2018 Han became the fifth writer chosen to contribute to the Future Library project. Katie
Paterson, the project's organizer, said that Han had been chosen because she "expands our view
of the world".[27] Han delivered the manuscript, Dear Son, My Beloved, in May 2019. In the
handover ceremony, she dragged a white cloth through the forest and wrapped it around the
manuscript. She explained this as a reference to Korean culture, in which a white cloth is used
both for babies and for mourning gowns, describing the event as "like a wedding of my
manuscript with this forest. Or a lullaby for a century-long sleep".[28]

Han was elected a Royal Society of Literature International Writer in 2023.[29]

The Vegetarian placed 49th in The New York Times 's "100 Best Books of the 21st century" in July
2024.[30]

In 2024 Han was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy for her "intense
poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".[31][32][33]
This made her the first South Korean writer[34] and the first female Asian writer to be awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature.[35]

Awards

1999 – Korean Novel Award for Baby Buddha[26]

2000 – Ministry of Culture and Tourism Today's Young Artist Award – Literature Section[26]

2005 – Yi Sang Literary Award for Mongolian Mark[25]

2010 – Dongri Literary Award for The Wind is Blowing[26]

2014 – Manhae Literary Award for Human Acts[26]

 2015 – Hwang Sun-won Literary Award for While One Snowflake Melts[26]

2016 – International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian[10]

2017 – Malaparte Prize for Human Acts[17][18]

2018 – Kim Yu-jeong Literary Award for Farewell[26]

2019 – San Clemente Literary Prize for The Vegetarian[26]

2023 – Prix Médicis étranger for We Do Not Part[36]

2024:
Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature for We Do Not Part[37]

Ho-Am Prize in the Arts[38]

Nobel Prize in Literature[31][32]

Works

Novels
여수의 사랑 ("Love in Yeosu"), Moonji, 1995, ISBN 89-320-0750-0.

검은 사슴 ("Black deer"), Munhakdongne, 1998, ISBN 89-8281-133-8.

내 여자의 열매 ("My woman's fruits"), Changbi, 2000, ISBN 89-364-3657-0.

그대의 차가운 손 ("Your cold hands"), Moonji, 2002, ISBN 89-320-1304-7.

채식주의자 ("The vegetarian"), Changbi 2007, ISBN 978-89-364-3359-8.

The Vegetarian, translated by Deborah Smith, Portobello Books, London 2015, ISBN 978-1-
84627-562-3.[39]

new edition: Hogarth/Random House, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-101-90611-8.

바람이 분다, 가라 ("The wind blows, go"), Moonji, 2010, ISBN 978-89-320-2000-6.

희랍어 시간 ("Greek lessons"), Munhakdongne, 2011, ISBN 978-89-546-1651-5.

Greek Lessons, translated by Deborah Smith and Emily Yae Won, Hogarth, 2023, ISBN 978-
0-593-59527-5.[40][41][42][43]

노랑무늬영원 ("Yellow pattern eternity"), Moonji, 2012, ISBN 978-89-320-2353-3.

소년이 온다 ("Human acts"), Changbi 2014, ISBN 978-89-364-3412-0.

Human Acts, translated by Deborah Smith, Portobello Books, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-
84627-596-8.[44][45][46]

흰 ("White"), Nanda, 2016, ISBN 978-89-546-4071-8.

 The White Book, translated by Deborah Smith, Portobello Books, London 2017, ISBN 978-1-
84627-695-8.

new edition: Hogarth, London 2019, ISBN 978-0-525-57306-7.

작별하지 않는다 ("We Do Not Part") Munhakdongne, 2021, ISBN 978-89-546-8215-2.

We Do Not Part, translated by Emily Yae Won and Paige Aniyah Morris, Hogarth, London
2025, ISBN 978-1-84627-695-8.

Short stories

내 이름은 태양꽃 ("My name is Sunflower"), Munhakdongne, 2002, ISBN 978-89-8281-479-2.

붉은 꽃 이야기 ("The red flower story"), Yolimwon, 2003, ISBN 978-89-7063-333-6.

천둥 꼬마 선녀 번개 꼬마 선녀 ("Thunder little fairy, lightning little fairy"), Munhakdongne, 2007,

ISBN 978-89-546-0279-2.

눈물상자 ("Tear box"), Munhakdongne, 2008, ISBN 978-89-546-0581-6.

Poetry

서랍에 저녁을 넣어 두었다 ("I put dinner in the drawer"), Moonji, 2013, ISBN 978-89-320-2463-9.

Essays

사랑과, 사랑을 둘러싼 것들 ("Love and things surrounding love"), Yolimwon, 2003, ISBN 978-89-
7063-369-5.

가만가만 부르는 노래 ("A song to sing calmly"), Bichae, 2007, ISBN 978-89-92036-27-6.

Adaptations

Baby Buddha and The Vegetarian have been made into films. Lim Woo-Seong wrote and directed
Vegetarian, which was released in 2009.[47] It was one of only 14 selections (out of 1,022
submissions) included in the World Narrative Competition of the North American Film Fest, and
was noticed at the Busan International Film Festival.[48]

Lim also adapted Baby Buddha into a screenplay, in collaboration with Han, and directed the film
version. Titled Scars, it was released in 2011.[48]

See also

Korean literature

List of Korean novelists

List of Korean-language poets

List of Korean female writers

 List of Nobel laureates in Literature

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External links

Han Kang (https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/1042) on Nobelprize.org

Official website (https://han-kang.net/)

"Han Kang on How Language Misses Its Mark" (https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-i

n-fiction/han-kang-02-06-23) . The New Yorker. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.

Kang, Han (28 April 2023). "Han Kang: 'One year I couldn't bear fiction and read astrophysics
instead' " (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/28/han-kang-one-year-i-couldnt-bear-
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