2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Han Kang. The prize was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on 10 October 2024.

The citation

The citation reads: "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".

The laureate

Han Kang was born in 1970 in Gwangju, South Korea.

Why it matters

The South Korean writer is best known for The Vegetarian, which won the International Booker Prize in 2016. She is the first South Korean writer to receive the literature prize.

The prize

The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.