Polish people read Korean Nobel Prize winner’s prose thanks to Koreanists from the Faculty of Oriental Studies
This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to South Korean writer Han Kang, recognized for her “intense poetic prose that grapples with historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
The novel “The Vegetarian” brought her international fame; the Polish translation, done by Dr. Justyna Najbar-Miller and Dr. Choi Jeong In from the University of Warsaw, was released in 2014 by Kwiaty Orientu publishing house and reissued in 2021 by W.A.B.
