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Han Kang's Nobel Prize win 'a surprise'

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Matthias Frickel
October 10, 2024

South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for a body of work that the Nobel committee said "confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Matthias Frickel from DW Culture

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