Han Kang – from eight-year-old poet to Nobel laureate


Author Han Kang (pic), this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, spoke passionately about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer – all the way back to when she was eight years old.

Han, the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize, was delivering her Nobel lecture in Stockholm, the Swedish capital, on Saturday.

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