Han Kang

Han Kang is a South Korean writer, born in 1970, who taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts from 2007 to 2018. She is best known for The Vegetarian, the first Korean-language novel to win the International Booker Prize, in 2016. Her other books include Human Acts, We Do Not Part, and The White Book, a lyrical study of grief seen through the color white. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024.