Watch: Winner of Nobel Prize in literature announced

South Korean writer Han Kang has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature. The author of The Vegetarian, The White Book, Human Acts and Greek Lessons was praised for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. After three days of Nobel prizes honoring work in the sciences, the literature award was announced by the Nobel Committee at the Swedish Academy on Thursday (10 October). Watch more on Independent TV: The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking newsbrand, providing global news, commentary and analysis for the independently-minded. Subscribe: Find us on social: TikTok / @independent Instagram / X (Twitter) / Facebook / Download the iOS & Andr