Korean Talent Acknowledged

Dr Grant

I am pleased to learn that the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to a Korean novelist—Han Kang. She is the first Korean to win this award.

Interestingly, her father was also a novelist.

 

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  • Dr Grant

    Hi, Myla. I am ashamed to say that I have not read any of her work. I must try to remedy that situation.

  • Myla AT

    When I heard the news, I thought her name was familiar. Then I remembered, I have her book, The White Book. I read it during the pandemic, 3 years ago. Who would have thought?

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