When the Nobel committee recognized Han Kang in October for her body of work exploring “the fragility of human life,” it ...

Across the first half of the 20th century few women went on to third-level education and, of these, fewer took science ...

The Nobel Prize is a prestigious international accolade awarded annually, recognizing significant contributions to humanity ...

Han Kang wins South Korea's first Nobel Prize in Literature Author Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Dec. 10 ...

When Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Prize winner for Literature, appears on the screen, there is an air of slight impatience about him as he waits for the interview to begin. After accepting ...

Since its foundation in 1901, there have only been five Asian and 18 women Nobel Prize in Literature winners out of 121 individuals. In an interview with the Swedish Academy, Han Kang responded that ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke passionately on Saturday about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all ...

STOCKHOLM--South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical ...

Han, the first Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, has long been interested in the existence of the victims of violence, as explored in the context of the Gwangju democratic movement ...

On Rudyard Kipling’s 159th birth anniversary, we retrace the links of the Nobel Prize winner to the city of his birth ...

Jenn Tran makes history as the first Asian American in the lead role in the history of the Bachelor franchise. Tran first ...