Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to South Korean Writer Han Kang

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang. The award was given to her "for her rich, poetic prose that confronts historical trauma and exposes the fragility of human life." The announcement ceremony can be followed live on the Nobel Committee website. More information about the writer and her achievements is available in the press release.

In 2023, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian novelist, playwright, and poet Jon Olav Fosse "for his groundbreaking plays and prose that express the inexpressible." And in 2022, the award was given to French writer Annie Ernaux. She was noted "for the courage and clinical precision with which she reveals the origins, alienation, and collective limitations of personal memory."

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to the author of "the most significant literary work of idealistic orientation." Its first winner was the French poet and essayist Sully Prudhomme.

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