Image Source : AP South Korean author Han Kang, who won the Nobel Prize 2024 in Literature. Stockholm: The Nobel Prize 2024 in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”, the Nobel Committee announced on Thursday. Kang comes from a literary background as her father being a reputed novelist. Alongside her writing, she has also devoted herself to art and music, which is reflected throughout her entire literary production. Han Kang was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before, at the age of nine, moving with her family to Seoul. She began her career in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems in the magazine Literature and Society. Her prose debut came in 1995 with the short story collection followed soon afterwards by several other prose works, both novels and short stories. The 53-year-old author won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for “The Vegetarian,” an unsettling novel in which a woman’s …