The winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian-her first to have been translated into English-Kang is one of South Korea’s most famous literary exports. And they continue to resonate in her writing as evidenced by her most recent work The White Book. Can the present save the past? Can the living save the dead? As South Korean author Han Kang revealed in a 2016 interview with the London-based magazine The White Review, these questions interested her during her twenties, only to resurface years later when drafting her novel Human Acts about the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and its aftermath.
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