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Nobel Literature goes to South Korean Han Kang, 18th woman to be awarded prestigious prize

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 Academy said.

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