Kang’s novels offer an important lens for understanding Korean history and politics, and the grief and strength of the Korean people.

Saito Mariko, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, announced the Literature Translation Institute of Korea on Thursday.

T HE AVERAGE American reader gets through about 11 books a year. No one wants to waste their precious free time on a dud. So ...

There are hidden family stories, and tales of love and loss both real and imagined in this month's best books, as recommended ...

Han Kang's witness literature explores human violence and redemption, reflecting on dark chapters in South Korean history.

This is an issue Han Kang has been tracing through her novels. Her stories engage, one way or another, with the problem of violence. As she writes in Human Acts, she sees the tendency to “uniform ...

That’s certainly the case in the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s new book ... was recently named one of The New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st Century.) In March, the Book Review Book ...

For Park Min-ha, 28, reading has always been a hobby. But in the wake of Han Kang’s historic Nobel Prize in literature win ...

Han Kang’s latest book, just out in English in the United States. (Hogarth) Theresa Phung, general manager of Yu & Me Books in Manhattan’s Chinatown, said the store had been seeing a level of ...

The first was writer Han Kang’s celebrated Nobel prize for literature ... This contradiction, between acts of violence and those of love, lies at the heart of Kang’s work. Her novels offer an ...