Han Kang hopes that after Nobel Prize for Literature win her ‘life won’t change too much’

Author Han Kang, the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature has said she hopes her daily life will not change too much after her historic honour.

Winning the Nobel was “a joyful and thankful moment, and I quietly celebrated that night”, she said at an award event in Seoul on October 17.

Han’s win has created a sensation in South Korea, with the websites of major bookstores and publishing houses crashing after it was announced, as tens of thousands rushed to order her books.

“The past week, filled with so many people sharing in my joy as if it were their own, will be remembered as a special and moving experience for me,” she said.