Nobel Prize for Literature

An illustration of Han Kang, a 54-year-old Korean woman with medium-length hair and bangs. The illustration is in black and white, with the shadows highlighted in metallic gold ink.

The Swedish Academy awards the Nobel Prize in Literature to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature.

The 2024 winner is South Korean author Han Kang, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

Novels by Han Kang in the Klamath County Library catalog: