In case you haven’t heard yet, South Korea’s Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2024. In a statement from the Permanent Secretary:

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang,

“for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

Perhaps best known in English for her International Booker Prize-winning novel, The Vegetarian, you can read a little bit about her — and get a few different takes — in The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, and The Korea Herald.