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Roundtable Discussion: “Han Kang’s Nobel Prize in Literature”

January 31, 2025
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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107 EMU (Miller Room), 1222 E. 13th Ave, Eugene, OR 97403

Rachel DiNitto, Jina Kim, Lee Moore, and Glynne Walley, East Asian Languages and Literatures; and Dong Hoon Kim, Cinema Studies

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. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, a first for an Asian woman and for a Korean.

Sponsor: East Asian Languages and Literatures, eall.uoregon.edu