South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. Han, 53, is the first South Korean writer and 18th woman to win the Nobel literature prize. She is also the second South Korean to win a Nobel Prize, late former president Kim Dae-Jung won the peace prize in 2000.
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00:00South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for her intense
00:06poetic prose that confirms historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
00:12The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee, Mads Møl, announced the prize
00:17in Hestegom on Thursday in her book on how Han Kang confirms historical traumas and invisible
00:25sets of rules and in each of her works expose the fragility of human life.
00:31Her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.
00:41The Nobel Prize is such a big award, so I think there have always been many people in
00:45Korea who wanted to receive it.
00:48Now, as a Korean, I feel a lot of pride in it.
00:53I would like to give a huge round of applause for winning the Nobel Prize.