Deborah Smith, the British translator widely credited for introducing Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang's works to the global stage, recently shared the novelist's reasoning for declining a post-award press conference on social media.

Han Kang, the South Korean winner of the 2024 Nobel prize in literature, made her breakthrough in the English-speaking world with her first translated novel (her third in Korean), The Vegetarian. Published in English in 2015,

When 2024 Nobel Literature Prize winner Han Kang's "The Vegetarian" won the International Booker Prize back in 2016, Deborah Smith, the book's London-based translator, received equal, if not greater,

This is eNews right now.The first keyword is the Han River Nobel Prize for Literature.Yesterday evening, I had some good news.The news of novelist Han Kang's

Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy announced last week, for “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. She is the first South Korean writer to be awarded the literature prize.