Han Kang is the daughter of novelist Han Seung-won. She was born in Kwangju and at the age of 10, moved to Suyuri (which she speaks of affectionately in her work "Greek Lessons") in Seoul.
She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. She began her writing career when one of her poems was featured in the winter issue of the quarterly Literature and Society. She made her official literary debut in the following year when her short story "The Scarlet Anchor" was the winning entry in the daily Seoul Shinmun spring literary contest.
Since then, she has gone on to win the Yi Sang Literary Prize (2005), Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. As of summer 2013, Han teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts while writing stories and novels.
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25th Korean Novel Award with the novella, “Baby Buddha” (1999)
Today's Young Artist Award (2000)
Yi Sang Literary Prize (2005)
Dongri Literary Award with The Wind is Blowing (2010)
Korean Literature Novel Award. As of summer 2013
Manhae literary prize for Human Acts (2014)
Man Booker International Prize (2016) for The Vegetarian
Atti umani (Human Acts) won the 2017 Malaparte Prize in Italy
San Clemete Prize for The Vegetarian in Spain (2019)
1970년 11월에 태어났다.
1993년 11월 계간지 <문학과사회>에 시 <서울의 겨울> 외 네 편을 발표하고, 이듬해 1월 서울신문 신춘문예에 단편소설 <붉은 닻>이 당선되며 작품 활동을 시작했다.
장편소설 <작별하지 않는다> <흰> <소년이 온다> <희랍어 시간> <바람이 분다, 가라> <채식주의자> <그대의 차가운 손> <검은 사슴>, 단편 소설집 <노랑무늬영원> <내 여자의 열매> <여수의 사랑>, 시집 <서랍에 저녁을 넣어 두었다> 를 냈다.
천천히, 계속 더 쓸 것이다.
한강
“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but faced with those decaying buildings and straggling grasses, she was nothing but a child who had never lived.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian
“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Han Kang, Human Acts
“Why, is it such a bad thing to die?”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian
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