The Academy's literary scholar on the path to understanding collective history through the individual aesthetics of pain in the work of South Korean writer Han Kang (Nobel Prize in Literature 2024)

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 has been awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang for her "sharp poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." The Nobel Committee's press release emphasized that Han Kang in her work "confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and in each of her works exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and thanks to her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose." Olga Romanova, a research fellow at the Department of Foreign and Slavic Literatures of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a candidate of philological sciences, analyzed Han Kang's development as a writer and the main motifs of her works in her article for the journal "Bulletin of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine." PDF file