Why read poetry? Why stand still and tune into poetry’s cadences in a madly spinning world? Because poetry, as the wise Irish poet Seamus Heaney put it, “inspires a hope that new possibility can still ...

One of the most significant books of K.K. Kochu, the Dalit thinker and writer, who passed away last week, is his ...

But nobody has ever publicly connected the dots between Kim Hye-soon and her poems, the character Kim Eun-sook in the novel by Han Kang, and the translator Lee Ok-gyeong. If anybody had been aware ...

Han Ji Min’s Kang Ji Yun and Lee Jun Hyuk’s Yu Eun Ho ... But one of his previous dramas, “A Poem A Day,” is a simple and reflective show that centers around the lives of three characters ...

Note: Some of these books contain triggering themes such as suicide, abuse, and death. Human Acts is arguably one of my favorite books of all time. Recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Han Kang writes a ...

While the novelist Han Kang made the nation proud by winning the 2024 Nobel Prize ... In 1980, my only familiarity with the country was Tagore’s famous poem “Light of the East”, which he wrote after ...

An Evening of Exquisite Piano Mastery,” performed by the Han-Kang Duo, is part of the University of Wyoming Department of ...

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history, tragedy and the work of remembering. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin ...

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...

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

Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories.