South Korean creator Han Kang received the Nobel Prize in Literature –

South Korean creator Han Kang received the Nobel Prize in Literature this 12 months. The award used to be given to him in reputation of his literary works exposing ‘the trauma of historical past and the fragility of human lifestyles’ via intense poetic prose.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences introduced the identify of this 12 months’s Nobel laureate in literature from Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday (October 10) at 5 pm Bangladesh time.

Han Kang is understood international for his novels ‘The Vegetarian’ and ‘Human Acts’. His books deal deeply with non-public and ancient trauma and violence.

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Han Kang used to be born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea. He moved to Seoul together with his circle of relatives on the age of 9. Han’s father may be a famend novelist. Along with writing, Han Kang devotes himself to artwork and tune.

The Nobel-winning writer will obtain a medal, a certificates and 1.1 million Swedish krona. Its financial price in Bangladeshi foreign money is ready 12 crore 80 lakh taka.

Previous, Norwegian writer and playwright Jon Fosse received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. The former 12 months, the distinguished prize used to be received by means of the French creator Annie Arnaux. In 2021, the Nobel Prize in Literature used to be awarded to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah.

French poet and essayist Sully Prudhomme received the primary Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.

The Nobel laureates are introduced once a year at the first Monday of October. In line with the tips at the Nobel Prize web site, the identify of the Nobel Prize winner shall be introduced on October 7 in medication, October 8 in physics, October 9 in chemistry, October 10 in literature, and October 11 in probably the most attention-grabbing prize, Peace. As well as, this 12 months’s Nobel Prize announcement will finish with the announcement of the winner of the economics prize on October 14.

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