La escritora surcoreana Han Kang fue distinguida con el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2024 "por su intensa prosa poética que se enfrenta a traumas históricos y expone la fragilidad de la vida humana", comunicó la Academia Sueca.
La academia consideró que la obra de Han Kang se caracteriza por una doble exposición del sufrimiento -como tormento mental y físico- y por sus conexiones con el pensamiento oriental.
Crédito: Nobel
La academia consideró que la obra de Han Kang se caracteriza por una doble exposición del sufrimiento -como tormento mental y físico- y por sus conexiones con el pensamiento oriental.
Crédito: Nobel
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00:00You just announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 will go to Han Kang.
00:06Could you please tell us something about the authorship?
00:09Well, Han Kang is a writer from South Korea.
00:13She was born in 1970, but she has been a published author already for 30 years.
00:19Her debut was in 1993 in a magazine, a literary magazine, and then 1994, a collection of short stories.
00:27I would say this is a very rich and complex oeuvre that spans many genres.
00:34And Han Kang writes these really intense lyrical prose that is both tender and brutal,
00:41and sometimes slightly surreal, surrealistic as well.
00:46There is a continuity as to themes that is quite remarkable,
00:55but at the same time a huge stylistic variation that makes every book a new aspect or a new expression of these central themes.
01:03If you haven't read her, what would you recommend to start with?
01:08It depends on who it is, but I always try to make individualistic, individual recommendations.
01:14But I would say the book Human Acts from 2014.
01:21It's a very moving, sometimes terrible story,
01:26because it's based on a historical event of a massacre when the military in South Korea in 1980
01:34killed over 100 students and civilians that were demanding democracy and human rights.
01:41But Han Kang uses this historical base in a very special way
01:48when she lets different characters reflect these events, both then and in the present,
01:55and also shows how the living and the dead are always intertwined,
01:59and how these kind of traumas stay in a population for generations sometimes.
02:05And it's also that her, in this book, always, but especially effective in this book,
02:12is her very tender and precise prose,
02:16that in itself almost becomes a counterforce to this brutal noisiness of power.