(Radio Iowa) - The South Korean author who won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature spent time in Iowa in 1998.
Han Kang was a writer in residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Christopher Merrill (MAIR-ull), program's director, says Kang started out as a poet and her novels show she has a musical understanding of what a sentence can do for a story.
Six of Kang's novels have been translated into English. Kang is the third alum of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.