Han Kang

Han Kang (Korean: 한강; born November 27, 1970) is a South Korean writer. She won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian, a novel about a woman's descent into mental illness and neglect from her family. The novel is also one of the first of her books to be translated into English.

This article is about the author. For the river of which her Korean name is a homonym, see Han River (Korea).
In this Korean name, the family name is Han.
Han Kang
Han Kang at SIBF 2014
Born (1970-11-27) November 27, 1970
Gwangju, South Korea
OccupationWriter
LanguageKorean
Alma materYonsei University
GenreFiction
Notable worksThe Vegetarian
Human Acts
Notable awardsMan Booker International Prize
2016
Yi Sang Literary Award
2005
Website
www.han-kang.net
Korean name
Hangul
한강
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHan Gang
McCune–ReischauerHan Kang
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