Han Kang, the recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born in Gwangju, South Korea, and moved to Seoul at the age of ten. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet, and was first published as a novelist in 1994. Read More Han has won the Man Booker International Prize (for The Vegetarian), the Yi Sang Literary Award, the Today’s Young Artist Award, and the Manhae Prize for Literature.