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Han Kang: ‘If I was 100% healthy I couldn’t have become a writer’

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https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/17/han-kang-white-book-meet-the-author?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&__twitter_impression=true
Journal
The Guardian
Issued Date
December 17, 2017
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Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
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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)

Han Kang is a South Korean writer whose novels in translation include Human Acts and The Vegetarian – for which she won the 2016 International Man Booker prize. Her latest work, The White Book, is a moving autobiographical meditation on loss and grief. Her new book tells the story of her sister who died two hours after she was born.

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