Nobel Prize in Literature 2024: The Swedish Academy for Literature Thursday announced the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 to South Korean author Han Kang for "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.
"The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the Nobel Prize handle posted on Twitter.
"In her oeuvre, Han Kang 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 in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose," the Nobel website wrote about Kang.
117th Literature Nobel
This is the 117th Literature Nobel will be awarded. In 2023, Jon Fosse got the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 116 times until now, with a total of 120 recipients between 1901 and 2023. The award has been shared between more than one person only on four occasions in the past — in 1904, 1917, 1966, and 1974. And it has never gone to one laureate twice.
There had been no Literature Nobel awarded in 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 — mostly during the time of World Wars.
In 1913, India's Rabindranath Tagore was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse".
