"For me, to write is to endlessly question what is life, what is death, what am I. When I write, especially when I’m writing novels, I’m exchanging one, two, three, sometimes four years for that book. So when I feel that I’m going forward as a writer, when I see that I explored what it means to be human in a certain way in this book and I went another way in another book, that’s when I’m glad that I became a writer."
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As quoted in "Interview: 2016 Man Booker International Prize Winner Han Kang" in Korean Literature Now (May 19, 2016)
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Han Kang
Han Kang (born November 27, 1970) is a South Korean writer. She won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for her novel The Vegetarian. She was awarded Nobel Prize in literature in 2024.
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