Han Kang is a South Korean novelist known for her lyrical, haunting prose and exploration of trauma, identity, and the human body. Born in 1970 in Gwangju, she grew up in a literary family and later studied Korean literature before becoming a writer.

She gained international acclaim with The Vegetarian, which won the Man Booker International Prize, bringing global attention to her work. Han’s writing often blends realism with surreal or unsettling elements, examining violence, memory, and the boundaries between mind and body, and she is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary voices in world literature.