Chihaya, Sarah (4 May 2023). "A Novel in Which Language Hits Its Limit—And Keeps On Going". The Atlantic . Retrieved May 8, 2023. If Han’s portrait of a woman’s withdrawal most readily calls to mind her 2015 English-language debut The Vegetarian, whose main character mounts a rebellion against her husband, family and society at large by refusing to eat meat, it also has a clear kinship with her later works Human Acts, which told the story of the Gwangju uprising of 1980, and The White Book, a fragmentary account of a writer walking through Warsaw reflecting on the death of her sister as a newborn. Han’s books often feature a meticulous, sustained attempt to describe inner states of being through glassily clear sentences in which sudden, unexpected images burst through. There is a sense of restraint and violence continually being held in balance; an insistence on indeterminacy, as strands of other narratives weave in and out of the story we believe we are being told.

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Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night."Eyes that Pierce into the Hinterland of Life Novelist Han Kang". Korean Literature Now (in Korean). Archived from the original on 2019-09-22 . Retrieved 2018-07-25.

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On Translating Human Acts by Han Kang - Asymptote". www.asymptotejournal.com . Retrieved 2023-06-23. Cheuk, Leland (April 20, 2023). " 'Greek Lessons' is an intimate, vulnerable portrayal of two lonely people". NPR.

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McAloon, Jonathan (5 January 2016). "Human Acts by Han Kang, review: 'an emotional triumph' ". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016 . Retrieved 7 April 2016. One of the two central protagonists of Han Kang’s Greek Lessons, the 2011 novel from the International Booker prizewinner, which has just been translated from Korean into English, has lost the power of speech. The book explores the extent to which this sudden disappearance of words, which first befell the unnamed woman when she was a teenager and has now recurred at a particularly vulnerable moment in her life, amounts to a more catastrophic rupture with language. For the woman appears almost to repudiate any other ways of communicating, eschewing written notes to her therapist or attempts to convey information through sign language. Fan, Jiayang (8 January 2018). "Han Kang and the Complexity of Translation". The New Yorker . Retrieved 21 November 2021. In 2016, "The Vegetarian" became the first Korean-language novel to win the Man Booker International Prize, which was awarded to both its author, Han Kang, and its translator, Deborah Smith. a b c "Humans As Plants". english.donga.com. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019 . Retrieved 13 January 2019. Alter, Alexandra (17 May 2016), "Han Kang Wins Man Booker International Prize for Fiction With 'The Vegetarian' ", The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 May 2016 , retrieved 17 May 2016

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McAloon, Jonathan (2016-01-05). "Human Acts by Han Kang, review: 'an emotional triumph' ". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 2023-06-23. Filgate, Michele (2023-04-17). "Why 'The Vegetarian' author Han Kang's newly translated novel is her gutsiest yet". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2023-06-23. Both a disquieting journey about the loss of sense and a return to the sensorium of touch and intimacy, Greek Lessons soars with sensuous and revelatory insight.”—Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings Han has stated that she suffers periodically from migraines, and credits these migraines with "keeping her humble." [7] Work [ edit ]

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Han is also a musician and interested in visual art, and her work often reflects this multi-disciplinary focus. [6] " Your Cold Hand (2002)" revolves around the story of a sculptor and his model. When she published an essay book Quietly Sung Songs (2007), she released a CD with ten songs that she composed, wrote lyrics for and recorded. [15] At first she was not intending to sing, but Han Jung Rim, a musician and music director, insisted Han should record the songs herself. [16] NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the “visionary” ( New York Times Book Review ) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian Han Kang ( Korean: 한강; born November 27, 1970) is a South Korean writer. [1] [2] She won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian, a novel about a woman's descent into mental illness and neglect from her family. [3] The novel is also one of the first of her books to be translated into English. [4] Life [ edit ] The Man Booker International Prize 2018 shortlist | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-23 . Retrieved 2019-08-23.

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The man, too, must come to terms with the notion that he cannot bend language to his will. He has devoted his whole life to the acquisition and mastery of the written word, the spoken word, the signed word (in addition to teaching Greek, he also knows Korean, German, and German sign language); he clings to that mastery even as his ability to read any of these languages fades. Through a series of letters he writes, we learn that when he was young, he loved a deaf woman whom he lost forever when he asked her to learn to speak verbally—so that when his sight left him and she could no longer sign to him, they could still communicate. It’s only through becoming closer to the woman in his Greek class that he finally understands what he did not in that earlier relationship: that the cultivation of lingua franca demands care and the deepest respect, and is not to be taken for granted or imposed. a b c "Sunday meeting with Han Kang (한강) author of The Vegetarian (채식주의자), Korean Modern Literature in Translation, 11 June 2013". Archived from the original on 24 December 2013 . Retrieved 11 June 2013. CORONA, MARCO DEL. "Premio Malaparte ad Han Kang". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2017-09-15.

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Vegetarian" to Compete at Sundance 2010 @ HanCinema:: The Korean Movie and Drama Database". www.hancinema.net. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019 . Retrieved 13 January 2019. Han won the 25th Korean Novel Award with her novella Baby Buddha in 1999, the 2000 Today's Young Artist Award, the 2005 Yi-Sang Literary Award with Mongolian Mark, and the 2010 Dong-ni Literary Award with Breath Fighting. Baby Buddha and The Vegetarian have been made into films. The Vegetarian was turned into a movie that was one of only 14 selections (out of 1,022 submissions) for inclusion in the World Narrative Competition of the prestigious North American Film Fest. The film was also a critical success at the Busan International Film Festival. [17] At first, it seems impossible that these two characters, enclosed in their own dwindling worlds, might be able to reach each other. Yet, slowly, they begin to articulate themselves, using a basic grammar of glances, gestures, respectful proximity. Ultimately, when the man breaks his glasses and is rendered sightless, they discover a way to communicate through touch—the tracing of letters with fingertip on palm—that could be read as a gently affirming, even triumphant, reclamation of language. The fractured dialogue created by the book’s alternating sections is finally made whole.