Why Did Han Kang Win the Nobel Prize? Yilin Zhong Ever since Amazon discontinued the Kindle eBook service in China, I’ve been unable to access Chinese books published locally or translated into Chinese. To date, I've only read two short stories by Han Kang: " The Plant Wife " which she wrote at 27 and later expanded into the Booker Prize-winning novel " The Vegetarian ", and " Middle Voices " published in 2023 in The New Yorker . The reason I’m writing this article, despite having read only these two stories, is that since the announcement of her award, I've seen various discussions and literary reviews in major Chinese media that feel rather off-topic. I want to clarify that while the focus of much of the media is on "The Vegetarian", which earned Han Kang international acclaim, it is not the work that won her the Nobel Prize. Instead, it was her 2014 novel "Human Acts" (translated in Chinese as " 少年来了 ...
Apologise to all my readers who have been waiting for so long.. The publishing contract was signed in Feb last year when I was travelling in Sydney, south of the earth, the novel was signed to be published in August 2017, however it finally comes out just now, March 2018, plus even not yet now, as Amazon still needs 3 more weeks to get those books from my publisher and to send to readers. In the past six months when the publishing issue was taken on place for many unexpected reasons, trust me, I have fighted from the beginning to the end and even went through all senior positioned people such as the chairman of the PLC pulbishing house, however, I am sorry to say, my effort couldn't make any chances, and even made things worse: because right now what you can read from this book/novel, for the well known publishing censorship in China, there are more than 5000 words being deleted straight away from my original script, due to relating to some poitical and government movement (such...
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