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Han Kang's The Vegetarian wins Man Booker International Prize for fiction

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Article
http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/books/han-kangs-the-vegetarian-wins-man-booker-international-prize-for-fiction
Journal
National Post
Issued Date
May 18, 2016
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
CANADA
City
Ontario
Book
-
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 novelist Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction Tuesday for her surreal, unsettling novel, The Vegetarian, about a woman who believes she is turning into a tree. Widely praised by critics in the United States and Britain, The Vegetarian is Han’s first work to be translated into English. It was selected by a panel of five judges, who considered 155 novels in translation, and chosen over novels by more established writers, including Elena Ferrante’s The Story of the Lost Child and Nobel Prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness in My Mind....     Source: http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/books/han-kangs-the-vegetarian-wins-man-booker-international-prize-for-fiction

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