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| ▲ This photo, provided by Pony Chung Foundation, shows South Korean author Han Kang. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Yonhap) -- Novelist Han Kang, 53, has become the first South Korean author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This marks South Korea's second Nobel Prize, following the 2000 Peace Prize awarded to the late former President Kim Dae-jung.
On the 10th (local time), the Swedish Academy announced Han Kang as this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Academy praised her work as "intense poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and reveals the fragility of human life."
The prize includes a monetary award of 11 million kronor (approximately 1.34 billion won), along with a medal and a diploma.
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| ▲ This image of Han Kang is captured from the official website for The Noel Prize in Literature 2024. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
Following the Literature Prize announcement, the Nobel Peace Prize is set to be revealed on the 11th, with the Economics Prize to be announced on the 14th. Earlier, on the 7th, American biologists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were named as the Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine for their contributions to the discovery of microRNA. On the 8th, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational work in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, announced on the 9th, was awarded to American biochemist David Baker and Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google’s AI company DeepMind, alongside researcher John Jumper, 39.
The Nobel Prize award ceremonies will take place on December 10th, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, with events held in Stockholm, Sweden (for Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, and Economics) and Oslo, Norway (for the Peace Prize).
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