Booker Prize and Nobel Prize in Literature."Young master." Who's Han River?

[Anchor]
Novelist Han Kang was a young writer who received the most attention in our literature with poetic sentences and in-depth world awareness.

Following the Booker Prize of world authority in 2016, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, making him a "young master" in the world literature world.

I'm reporter Park Soon-pyo.

[Reporter]
Han Kang, who majored in Korean literature in college, first debuted as a poet in 1993.

The following year, he took his first step as a novelist when his novel [Red Anchor] was elected in the New Year Literature of the Seoul Newspaper.

Then, in 1995, he released a novel collection [Yeosu's Love] and began to concentrate on his writing career as a full-time writer.

In 2005, he won the Lee Sang Literary Award at the age of 30 for his novel Mongo Banjeok, and was considered the most prominent writer of Korean literature.

The Lee Sang Literary Award-winning committee said, "Unlike other young writers, a serious sentence reveals a deep world perception."
Lee I-ryeong, a literary critic of
, said, "It gives you a high level of fun to read novels with high-level symbolism and excellent writing skills."

Then, as Han Kang's novel was translated into the Anglo-American world, his unique poetic sentences and dense composition drew high praise from overseas critics.

In 2016, he was named the winner of the Booker Prize, which is considered one of the world's top three literary awards, along with the Nobel Prize for Literature and the French Goncourt Prize for his novel [Vegetarian].

[Han Kang / Novelist: At that time, it was more weird than happy or something]
He gained international fame by winning the Italian Malaparte Literature Award and the French Medici Literature Award in
.

With this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang has now been named one of the most notable "young masters" in the world literature community.

I'm Park Soonpyo of YTN.