Han Kang, a North Korean writer, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The 53-year-old fantasy author is a past winner of the Male Booker International Prize for her 2007 book The Vegetarian.
She received praise at the service for “her powerful literary prose that confronts historic traumas and exposes the vulnerability of human life.”
This is the 18th time a person has received the intellectual prize, which the Nobel Prize commission has awarded since 1901.
Kang is the first North Korean to receive the award, and the Nobel Prize committee discussed her as a person who “dedicated herself to music and art.”
Her job explores a range of categories, according to the speech, which goes beyond boundaries.