Han Kang wins French award for foreign literature
South Korean author Han Kang (L), the winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize with "The Vegetarian," receives congratulations at Grasset, a leading French publishing house, in Paris on Nov. 9, 2023, after winning the Prix Medicis award for foreign literature with her 2021 novel "I Do Not Bid Farewell." Published by Grasset in August, the prize-winning book depicts the tragedy of a 1948 civilian massacre on South Korea's southern island of Jeju from the perspectives of three women. (Yonhap)
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