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Younghill Kang (Korean: 강용흘; RR: Kang Yong-heul; June 5, 1898 – December 2, 1972) was a Korean-American writer. [1] He is best known for his 1931 novel The Grass Roof (the first Korean American novel [ 2 ] ) and its sequel, the 1937 fictionalized memoir East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee.
“Han Kang writes intense, lyrical prose that is both tender and brutal,” said Anna-Karin Palm, a co-opted member of the Nobel Committee for Literature, in an interview with the Nobel Prize ...
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Kang and Kodos, green one-eyed aliens in The Simpsons; Kang the Conqueror, a Marvel Comics supervillain; Kang , a Klingon warrior in Star Trek television series; Liu Kang, a character in the Mortal Kombat series; Meng Kang, a character in the Water Margin; Kang the Mad, a character in Jade Empire 2005 video game
Han Kang's Nobel Prize was a surprise to many in South Korea. Here's what you need to know about 'her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life'
Han Kang, South Korea's first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was slow to global acclaim, getting her first big international prize nine years after her best-known novel was published ...
Kang Sunghee used stylish expressions and concise sentences that stems from her background in English literature. Aside from one of her earlier works, Mwonga dandanhi jalmotdwaetgeodeun , most of her plays handle the conflicts between reality and ideals the characters face with a heavy and serious tone.
Literature, for Kang, is a way to heal wounded souls, by means of which one can take a step closer to the true essence of human life. Her trip to India in 1992 allowed her a powerful experience of the "infinite universe", as a result of which she realized that all obsessions are primitive in nature.