Han Kang
b. 1970 · South Korea · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2024
Confronts historical trauma and bodily fragility; The Vegetarian, Human Acts.
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- Emily Dickinson
1830 – 1886 · Literature
Compressed lyric interiority is the pressure her prose keeps.
- Kenzaburō Ōe
1935 – 2023 · Literature
Ōe's postwar moral witness is a model for her body-and-history fiction.
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