Han Kang

Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University)

Ed. by Helen Rachel Cousins, Birmingham Newman University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.2.3: Korean Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University)

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Born 27 Nov 1970
Activity 1993-ongoing

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Active in South Korea

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Han Kang is a South Korean writer of eight novels, three short story collections and one poetry collection, to date. She was born in Gwangju and grew up in Suyuri. Han is a graduate of Yonsei University where she studied Korean literature and in 1998 was a student at the University of Iowa International Writing Program (Han, nd.). Some of her works have now been widely translated, while others are available only in the original Korean. Her most widely translated work,

The Vegetarian

, won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for Fiction in its English translation by Deborah Smith (2015). Two further book-length works have since been translated into English by Smith:

Human Acts

in 2016, and

The White Book

in 2017, also shortlisted for the Man Booker International.

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Citation: Myler, Kerry. "Han Kang". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 October 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14035, accessed 05 May 2024.]

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