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Man Booker: Han Kang's The Vegetarian takes top prize

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Article
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/man-booker-han-kangs-the-vegetarian-takes-top-prize-20160517-gown3p.html
Journal
The Sydney Morning Herald
Issued Date
May 16, 2016
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
AUSTRALIA
City
New South Wales
Book
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Writer
Han Kang

About the Author

  • Han Kang
  • Birth : 1970 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kang
  • Family Name : Han
  • Korean Name : 한강
  • ISNI : 0000000054537103
  • Works : 161
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  • English(English)

South Korean author Han Kang has won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction with The Vegetarian, an unsettling novel about a woman whose decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences. Han beat literary stars including elusive Italian author Elena Ferrante and Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk to the $98,951 prize, awarded at a London ceremony on Monday. Literary critic Boyd Tonkin, chairman of the judging panel, said Han's "compact, exquisite and disturbing" novel displayed an "uncanny blend of beauty and horror".....     Source: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/man-booker-han-kangs-the-vegetarian-takes-top-prize-20160517-gown3p.html

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