Speaker
Ms. Han Kang
Nobel Laureate in Literature (2024)
Ms. Han Kang is one of the world's most influential contemporary writers. Through poetic prose and emotionally powerful novels, she explores memory, identity, suffering, and hope, bringing Korean literature to a global audience. In 2024 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her intense poetic prose confronting historical trauma and exposing the fragility of human life, becoming the first South Korean writer and the first Korean-language author to receive the prize.