South Korea's Han Kang sells one million books after Nobel win


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A picture of South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, is displayed near the special section at a bookstore in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. — AP Photo/Lee Jin-man

More than a million copies of books by Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have sold locally since the honour was announced, bookstores said Wednesday.

The short story writer and novelist is best known overseas for her Man Booker Prize-winning "The Vegetarian", her first novel translated into English.

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