In this introduction to our collection of Jordanian writing, guest editor Addie Leak details the country's diverse culture ...

The novelist and short-story writer, who died Monday at ninety-six, contributed to The New Yorker for more than six decades.

H AN KANG has been called “Korea’s Kafka”. Rather than giant bugs, her metamorphoses involve vegetation. “The Fruit of My ...

A long-lost story from Bram Stoker, the Irish author of one of the world's best known gothic horror stories Dracula, has been ...

Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2007) is a case in point, and it is no doubt the work that was most influential in the Swedish ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense poetic prose that ...

Han Kang, South Korea’s first Nobel Literature laureate, says win was a ‘joyful moment’ she ‘quietly celebrated’, but now ...

" width="1200" height="675" /> Established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and philanthropist, the Nobel Prize for Literature celebrates outstanding contributions to the world of ...

While Han Kang’s victory was celebrated as a crowning cultural achievement for her country, her work also represents a form ...

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her ...

The South Korean author, best known for “The Vegetarian,” is the first writer from her country to receive the prestigious ...