Author Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, says she hopes her daily life will not change too much after receiving the historic honour. 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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00:00I believe and hope that my daily life will not be so different from before.
00:08When I was informed of the award at the Nobel Peace Prize,
00:13I didn't feel real, so I just tried to have a calm conversation.
00:21Only after I hung up the phone and checked the press release did I feel real.
00:29The past week that so many people celebrated like their own work
00:34will be remembered as a special touch for me.
00:41I am a person who is connected to the world through the writing I write,
00:46so I want to keep writing as I have done so far and meet readers in the book.