Han, 53, is the first Asian to receive the prestigious prize in literature and the Swedish Academy described her work as characterized by “her intense poetic prose, which confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
Han became internationally known with his novel “The Vegetarian” (2007) – translated into Spanish -, which earned him the Man Booker Prize in 2016, one of the main English-speaking literary prizes.
More than a million copies of the writer’s books Han Kangthe first South Korean to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, have been sold in their country since the Swedish Academy announced the award last week, local bookstores reported this Wednesday.
Han, 53, is the first Asian to receive the prestigious prize in literature and the Swedish Academy described her work as characterized by “her intense poetic prose, which confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
The announcement of the prize created a sensation in South Korea and the websites of bookstores and publishers crashed as thousands of people tried to buy their books.
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At least 1.06 million copies, including e-books, had been sold as of Wednesday morning following the Nobel Prize announcement last Thursday, three major bookstores and retailers: Kyobo, Aladin and YES24 told AFP.
“There is an unprecedented sale of Han Kang’s books. It is something never seen before”Kim Hyun-jung, spokesperson for the Kyobo bookstore, told AFP.
The online bookstore Aladin indicated that the sales of Han’s books multiplied by 1,200 compared to the same period last year and also boosted the purchase of works by other South Korean authors.
Han became internationally known with his novel “The Vegetarian” (2007) – translated into Spanish -, which earned him the Man Booker Prize in 2016, one of the main English-speaking literary prizes.
Source: Ambito
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