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An irresistibly weird and sensuous story of betrayals, transformations and social taboos.
Han Kang was born in Gwangju in 1970. Since the age of ten, She
grew up in Suyuri, Seoul after her family moved there. She studied
Korean literature at Yonsei University. She made her literary debut
as a poet by publishing five poems, including 'Winter in Seoul', in
the winter issue of Munhak-gwa-sahoe (Literature and Society) in
1993. She began her career as a novelist the next year by winning
the 1994 Seoul Shinmun Spring Literary Contest with 'Red Anchor'.
She published her first short story collection entitled Yeosu
(Munji Publishing Company) in 1995. She participated in the
University of Iowa International Writing Program for three months
in 1998 with support from the Arts Council Korea.
Her publications include a short story collection, Fruits of My
Woman (2000), Fire Salamander (2012), novels such as Black Deer
(1998), Your Cold Hands (2002), The Vegetarian (2007), Breath
Fighting (2010), Greek Lessons (2011), Human Acts (2014) and The
White Book (2016). A poem collection, I Put the Evening in the
Drawer (2013) was published as well. She won the 25th Korean Novel
Award with the novella, 'Baby Buddha' in 1999, the 2000 Today’s
Young Artist Award by Culture Ministry Korea, the 2005 YiSang
Literary Award with 'Mongol Spot', and the 2010 Dongri Literary
Award with The Wind is Blowing. She was awarded Manhae literary
prize for Human Acts (2014) and Hwang Sun-won literary award (2015)
for the novella While One Snowflake Melts. Her recent novella
Farewell won the Kim Yujung Literary Prize.(2018). The Vegetarian
won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Atti umani (Human
Acts) won the 2017 Malaparte Prize in Italy. She was awarded San
Clemete Prize for The Vegetarian in Spain (2019). She was selected
as the fifth writer for the Future Library project in Norway in
2019. In 2024 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Janet
Song has performed with numerous theatre companies throughout the
United States, with shows including Twelfth Night, Nora and Medea.
She is the recipient of a Drama-Logue Award for her performance in
Morticians in Love at the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles.
Janet’s television appearances include Gilmore Girls, Frasier, The
Office (US) and House. Stephen "Steve" Park began his entertainment
career as a stand-up comedian before moving into acting. The
Korean-American actor is known for his film roles, such as Sonny in
Do the Right Thing (1989) and Chris Kawai in State of Play (2009),
opposite big names, including Russell Crowe and Helen Mirren. He
has featured in two Coen Brothers films, Fargo (1996) and A Serious
Man (2009), and met his wife, actress Kelly Coffield Park, on the
set of In Living Color (1991).
'Sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images,
startling colours and disturbing questions. Sentence by sentence,
The Vegetarian is an extraordinary experience'.
*The Guardian*
'Enthralling ... It has a surreal and spellbinding quality,
especially in its passage on nature and the physical landscape, so
beautiful and so magnificently impervious to the human suffering
around it.'
*The Independent*
'Kang has crafted a wounding, unsettling book ... Han Kang's
greatest achievement is crafting a small table from which great
things grow.'
*Irish Examiner*
'[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that ... exposes the
fragility of human life.'
*from the Nobel Prize citation*
'Ferocious.' (Ten Best Books of the Year)
*New York Times Book Review*
'Both terrifying and terrific.'
*Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling author of Matrix and
Fates and Furies*
'Provocative [and] shocking.'
*The Washington Post*
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