Han Kang was born in 1970 in the Gwangju city of South Korea. She moved to Seoul at the age of nine. Kang comes from a literary background, and her father is a renowned novelist.
Alongside her career as a thriving writer, Kang has also pursued her passion in art and music, the components of which are often seen as a reflection in her words.
Han Kang began her career in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems in the magazine ‘Literature and Society’.
Her prose debut came in 1995 with the short story collection ‘Love of Yeosu’, followed soon afterwards by several other prose works, both novels and short stories.
In 2023, Norwegian author Jon Fosse was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”Betting sites had tipped Fosse, a playwright whose work is among the most widely staged of any contemporary playwright in Europe to win the award.The Nobel Prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by their creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Winners also receive an 18-carat gold medal and diploma at the award ceremonies in December.
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper were awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry on Wednesday. While Baker was bestowed with the coveted Prize for computational protein design, Hassabis and Jumper were recognised for protein structure prediction.
On Tuesday, John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
The AI pioneers, with the help of Physics, revolutionised machine learning.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 will be announced on Friday.
