About Han Kang
Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1970. She debuted as a poet in 1993 and published her first novel in 1994. She won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for her novel “The Vegetarian”. Her works, including “Human Acts” (2016) and most recently “We Do Not Part” (2025), have been published in more than 40 languages and received numerous international prizes. In 2024, Han Kang won the Nobel Prize for literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
