The Nobel Prize winning author is vigilant against the dangers of forgetting in a memorable, probing and exquisitely detailed ...

More than 13m people come to this island, south of South Korea’s mainland, every year; many will not be aware of what lies ...

There’s a strong sense of déjà vu in Han Kang’s We Do Not Part, the first novel in translation since her 2024 Nobel Prize win ...

We Do Not Part by South Korean writer Han Kang asks difficult questions about the troubled history of her nation.

In Han Kang’s latest novel, a character saws off the tips of two of her fingers in a woodworking accident. Surgeons reattach them, but the treatment is gruesome and agonizing. Every three ...

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...

In fact, it’s among the nightmares that have haunted her for years. Kyungha, the protagonist of Han Kang’s novel We Do Not Part, is a writer; in 2012, six years before the book starts ...