• Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, on her novel 'The Vegetarian'

  • Oct 14 2024
  • Length: 7 mins
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Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature, on her novel 'The Vegetarian'

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  • South Korean author Han Kang is this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature, making her the first Korean writer to win the award. In its citation, the Swedish Academy commended Han "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Both of these themes are present in the author's 2007 novel, The Vegetarian, which tells the story of a young woman who decides to give up meat. In today's episode, we revisit a 2016 interview between Han and NPR's Linda Wertheimer, which took place around the time of The Vegetarian's publication in English. In the interview, they discussed gender politics, how women cope with trauma, and Han's "long-lasting question about human violence."

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