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txwhitedove

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1. I have not read this author, but a friend was reading "The Vegetarian" in summer. Is this honor more

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2024, 12:40 PM

Oct 2024

for her body of work? The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 was awarded to Han Kang "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life

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I have not read this author, but a friend was reading "The Vegetarian" in summer. Is this honor more txwhitedove Oct 2024 #1