In front of hundreds of people, South Korean writer Han Kang quietly read from a poem she wrote in April 1979, when she was 8. During the Swedish Academy’s ceremony for Nobel laureates on Saturday (local time),

Nobel laureate Han Kang's award ceremony approaching Shin Mi-sung (L), a South Korean national of Sweden, recites a work by South Korean author Han Kang in Stockholm on the night of Dec. 8, 2024, ahead of Han's Nobel Prize for Literature award ceremony.

In a poignant lecture, titled, "Light and Thread," Nobel Prize winner Han Kang revisited the roots of her literary journey, starting with a poem book she wrote at the age of 8. Speaking in Korean to an audience of hundreds in Stockholm on Friday,