Figure I'd pull an arbitrary quote from Han Kang for this. Translated obviously<p>> “There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everything passes.” - Han Kang
Official release: <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/press-release/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/press-rele...</a>
Is good English translation of her works available? If so, please share. I like good prose and want to read and understand how is her prose different. Thanks.
I think the Nobels, especially in the arts, have lost their relevance, similar to the Michelin restaurant awards and the Oscars for film. We now know they're from a select group (of Norwegians in this case) with certain tastes no more noteworthy or transcendent than any of ours. The world has too much culture and achievement today to be marked by one group of awards like this per year. We have "Oscar bait," but I think the phenomenon of "Nobel bait" has been around for a long time.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_bait" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_bait</a>