Han Kang wins Man Booker International Prize for fiction

a. Yan Lianke

b. Han Kang

c. Jan Kang

d. None of the above

 

S. Korean author Han Kang has won the Man Booker Intenrnational Prize with “The Vegetarian,” an unsettling novel in which a woman’s decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences.

• Literary critic Boyd Tonkin, chair of the panel that chose the winner from 155 entries, said Han’s book combined “tenderness and terror” in a tale of “volcanic, visceral intensity.”
• The award is the counterpart of the Booker prize in the world and is open to authors whose works have been translated into the English language
• Prize will be split between Han and translator Deborah Smith who helped in the book
• This is one of the first books by the author to be translated into English.

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