Han Kang has become the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the committee praising her "poetic and experimental style" and calling her an "innovator in contemporary prose." Han previously won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel "The Vegetarian."
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00:00Acclaimed author Han Kang has become the first person from South Korea to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
00:06The novelist is known for works that confront South Korea's historical trauma.
00:10The Nobel Committee praised her poetic and experimental style and called her an innovator in contemporary prose.
00:17Han previously won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel, The Vegetarian.
00:22Customers at a bookstore in Seoul were delighted with Han's win,
00:25seeing it as a statement in a country where the literary scene has traditionally been dominated by men.