### [2024-10-10](/feed/2024/10/10/index.md)

##### 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
# This year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life". 




### Sources:

1. [Nobel Prize](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/press-release/)

### Changes:

1. This year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Korean writer Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. _2024-10-10 18:19:10 (First version)_
1. This year's Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life".  _(Current version)_

### Related:

1. [This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is jointly awarded to British computer scientist Demis Hassabis and American chemist John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction, and to American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker for his work on computational protein design. ](/feed/2024/10/9/this-year-s-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-is-jointly-awarded-to-british-computer-scientist-demis-hassabis-and-american-chemis.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_
2. [Alain Aspect of France, John Clauser of the U.S., and Anton Zeilinger of Austria are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments with entangled photons, establishing the validity of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science". ](/feed/2022/10/4/alain-aspect-of-france-john-clauser-of-the-us-and-anton-zeilinger-of-austria-are-jointly-awarded-the-nobel-prize-in.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_
3. [The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity," and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea M. Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy." ](/feed/2020/10/6/the-nobel-prize-in-physics-is-awarded-to-roger-penrose-for-the-discovery-that-black-hole-formation-is-a-robust-predicti.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_
4. [The 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for their discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. ](/feed/2020/10/5/the-2020-nobel-prize-in-medicine-is-awarded-to-harvey-j-alter-michael-houghton-and-charles-m-rice-for-their-discover.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_
5. [1996 Nobel Prize winning physicist Robert Coleman Richardson dies at the age of 75. ](/feed/2013/02/19/1996-nobel-prize-winning-physicist-robert-coleman-richardson-dies-at-the-age-of-75.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_
6. [The size of the Nobel Prize is being reduced by 20% in order to avoid an undermining of its capital in a long-term perspective. ](/feed/2012/06/11/the-size-of-the-nobel-prize-is-being-reduced-by-20-in-order-to-avoid-an-undermining-of-its-capital-in-a-long-term-persp.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_
7. [A. E. Hotchner, a friend and collaborator of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, writing in "The New York Times" on the 50th anniversary of Hemingway's death, expresses his belief that the J. Edgar Hoover-led Federal Bureau of Investigation's surveillance "substantially contributed to his anguish and his suicide", with Hotchner saying he "regretfully misjudged" Hemingway's fear of the FBI. ](/feed/2011/07/3/a-e-hotchner-a-friend-and-collaborator-of-the-nobel-prize-winning-writer-ernest-hemingway-writing-in-the-new-york-t.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_
8. [A court in Bangladesh clears Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus of misappropriating Norwegian aid money at a micro-finance bank he founded. ](/feed/2011/04/25/a-court-in-bangladesh-clears-nobel-laureate-muhammad-yunus-of-misappropriating-norwegian-aid-money-at-a-micro-finance-ba.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_
9. [Hundreds of people march in Hong Kong to demand the release of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo ahead of the Nobel Prize ceremony on Friday. ](/feed/2010/12/5/hundreds-of-people-march-in-hong-kong-to-demand-the-release-of-chinese-dissident-liu-xiaobo-ahead-of-the-nobel-prize-cer.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_
10. [Iranian Nobel Prize laureate, Shirin Ebadi approves of the United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran's nuclear program, as Iran marks the first anniversary of its disputed presidential poll. ](/feed/2010/06/12/iranian-nobel-prize-laureate-shirin-ebadi-approves-of-the-united-nations-security-council-sanctions-against-iran-s-nucl.md) _Context: Nobel Prize_