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Press release
10 October 2024

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024

Han Kang

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”.

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