Tag: Nobel
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The true reality of dreams in Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’
In 2024, South Korea’s Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature. As a 54-year-old author of eleven novels—only five of which have been translated into English—Han was viewed by some as an unexpected choice. The Swedish Academy—awarders of the Nobel Prize—praised Han ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the…
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The forest of discovery in Jon Fosse’s ‘A Shining’
The 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse inverts Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in his book ‘A Shining’, portraying a journey of confusion and ghostly visions within a dark forest. Unlike Plato’s enlightenment through external light, Fosse suggests a discovery of truth within darkness, paralleling certainty with confusion and using the forest as a metaphorical space…
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Seeing is remembering: the photograph in Annie Ernaux’s ‘The Years’
Annie Ernaux is the latest name to grace the list of Nobel Prize winners in Literature. She was awarded in 2022 for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory. Nobel Prize awarding committee The sense of ‘clinical acuity’ combined with the richness of ‘personal…