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On October 10, 2024, BTS’ RM and Taehyung took to their Instagram pages to celebrate novelist Han Kang’s achievement as she was honored with the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature. While RM posted a story with emojis, BTS’ V shared the award article on his Instagram account, along with a message saying:
"I read this in the military. Congratulations."
Han Kang was born on November 27, 1970, in Gwangju, South Korea. She is the maiden South Korean novelist and the eighteenth female recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Han's literary works, including novels, essays, and short story collections, dealt with issues of patriarchy, violence, and humanity.
As stated on the official Nobel Prize website, 53-year-old Han was recognized for:
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“Her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”
Her 2007 novel titled The Vegetarian was translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015, which received the International Booker Prize in 2016.
Han Kang belongs to a literary background as her father was also a novelist
Han Kang hails from a literary ancestry with her father being a distinguished novelist. In addition to her writing, she has dedicated herself to art and music, which is evident in her complete body of literary work.
Han kicked off her literary journey in 1993 with the publishing of several poems in a magazine called Literature and Society. Her published launch was in 1995 with a short story anthology titled Love of Yeosu, subsequently followed by several prose publications, including novels and short tales.
One of her prominent works include her 2002 novel Your Cold Hands, which clearly reflects Kang’s fascination with art. The author has achieved significant international recognition with her novel The Vegetarian (2015). Divided into three sections, the book illustrates the severe repercussions that arise when the protagonist, Yeong-hye, rejects societal conventions around dietary consumption.
The 2010 novel The Wind Blows, Go is a substantial and intricate narrative centered on friendship and creativity, prominently featuring themes of bereavement and a desire for transformation. Han’s profound empathy for intense life narratives is amplified by her more evocative metaphorical language.
In the 2016 novel Human Acts, Han Kang utilizes a historical occurrence as her political basis. She primarily focuses on the massacre of hundreds of students and unarmed civilians by the South Korean military in Gwangju, the city of her upbringing, in 1980. The work aims to amplify the voices of historical victims by confronting it with stark realism, so aligning itself with the style of witness fiction.
A notable feature is her later piece, We Do Not Part (2021), which is also a depiction of suffering. The narrative transpires against the backdrop of a massacre that occurred in the late 1940s on Jeju Island, South Korea, where tens of thousands, including children and the elderly, were executed on suspicion of involvement.
Other notable works of Han Kang include Convalescence, The Boy is Coming, The White Book, and Han Kang. Series: The Essential. Collection.
