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'Intense Poetic Prose' Just Won Her the Literature Nobel (Newser Breaking News)

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October 10, 2024
 
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'Intense Poetic Prose' Just Won Her the Literature Nobel
The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel Committee called "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Kang, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences, per the AP. Keep reading
 
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