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Han Kang

South Korean writer

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alive

born
1970
died
no date on record
age
55
known for
writer, novelist, short story writer

born 1970

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Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016.

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