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The Swedish Academy decided to present the Prize Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 Han Kang, which led many to wonder What books did this author write? born in South Korea.
The Nobel Committee decided to award him this honor for his “intense and poetic prose, which confronts generational traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Mats Malm, told how his first contact with the award-winning writer was: “I was able to speak with Han Kang on the phone. “He seemed to be having an ordinary day, having just finished dinner with his son.” Malm said that The writer born in 1970 in Gwanju “was not prepared” to hear the newsbut that preparations had already begun for its presentation at the awards ceremony in December.
Although he Nobel Prize in Literature could be unexpected for its author, as well as for the previous bets, Kang was already on the radar of many after winning the Booker Prize in 2016. with his work The Vegetarian. This book, written in 2007, but translated into English in 2015, narrates in triptych form the experiences of Yeong-hye, a housewife who after having a dream decides to abandon eating meat, and the consequences that this has for her. her and her surroundings.
In Argentina, the book can be imported through e-commerce platforms in its Spanish version, published by Random House. Another of the volumes that can be buy in our country, and is available in physical bookstores, it is Greek class, written in 2011, but translated last year, published by the same publisher, which tells the story of a woman who is “not young or especially attractive” who loses her speech for the second time.
Greek Class is one of Han Kang’s books that has been translated into Spanish, in this case by Random House
“The language, which imprisoned and hurt her like a garment made of thousands of pins, disappeared overnight,” Kang tells the story of this womanwho also faces the loss of his mother and the possession of his son. To recover his lost language, he enrolls in ancient Greek classes in Seoul. There he meets the professor, who is facing gradual blindness.
The The list of his works translated into Spanish is completed with his novels Blanco (2015) y human acts (2014)both translated by Rata Books. However, a search through electronic commerce platforms shows that the books are not available in Argentina, and can only be imported in the case of the former, since human acts is out of stock at the moment.
This repeats what happened with the previous winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, whose works translated into Spanish were scarce at the time of receiving the Nobel. If he follows the same course as his predecessor in the award, Kang’s exposure to the Spanish-speaking publishing market should increase in the coming months.
As the same author says in your official site, These are Han Kang’s books:
Soap Operas
Stories
Poetry
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