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Nobel Prize in literature is awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her 'intense poetic prose'
Updated On: 10 October, 2024 06:05 PM IST | Stockholm | AP
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Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, announces that South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for literature this year, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, October 10. Pic/AFP
The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".
Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm, news agency AP reported.
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