Han Kang received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024, making them laureate number 121 since the prize was first awarded in 1901.
They are the only writer from South Korea to have won the prize.
Our pick for reading Han Kang for the first time is The Vegetarian. It is one of the most widely read Nobel books in the world and an easy way in.
The Vegetarian tells how Yeong-hye, an ordinary Korean woman, stops eating meat after a dream, and how her family reacts with growing violence. It is told in three parts by different narrators. It won the International Booker Prize and is short, unsettling and hard to forget.
One email on announcement day with the winner and where to start reading. Then one Nobel read a month.