Written by South Korean author Han Kang and translated by British writer Deborah Smith, “The Vegetarian” masterfully explores the lure of volatile human desire by challenging South Korean ...

Author Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature has said she hopes her daily life will not change too much after her historic honour.

To many Koreans, writer Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win last year was more than a personal triumph for the author. It was a long-overdue international recognition of the brilliance of Korean ...

The seeming decline of a certain type of novelist is much discussed and debated in the literary world. But the bigger question is whether it matters.