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South Korea’s Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel prize in literature – follow live
Author, known for her acclaimed work The Vegetarian, honoured for her ‘intense prose that confronts historical traumas’
Last year, Norwegian writer Jon Fosse won the Nobel, having long been tipped for it. Check out Catherine Taylor’s guide to his work here
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