The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 was awarded to Han Kang, "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."
Han Kang, author of the 2016 International Booker Prize winner 'The Vegetarian', is only the 9th Asian to win the Literature Nobel. The first was Rabindranath Tagore in 1913.
Ref: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/press-release/