South Korean writer Han Kang on Tuesday received the Nobel Prize in literature at a ceremony in Stockholm, days after expressing her shock at the ongoing political turmoil in her homeland following a short-lived declaration of martial law.The 54-year-old was selected by the Swedish Academy in recognition of her "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.""In the darkest night, there is language that asks what we are made of," she said during her speech at the banquet following Tuesday's ceremony. "Literature that deals in this language in…READ FULL ARTICLE
