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Best known for her dark and troubling novel "The Vegetarian", Han Kang has been announced as the 2024 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the Swedish Academy praising her "intensely poetic prose" and the important questions of historical trauma and human fragility that she deals with. Audrey Chapuis, the executive director of the American Library in Paris, joins us on set to discuss the themes of the author's work and its international reach, as well as the viral boost that brought Han's writing to a younger generation.
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Best known for her dark and troubling novel "The Vegetarian", Han Kang has been announced as the 2024 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, with the Swedish Academy praising her "intensely poetic prose" and the important questions of historical trauma and human fragility that she deals with. Audrey Chapuis, the executive director of the American Library in Paris, joins us on set to discuss the themes of the author's work and its international reach, as well as the viral boost that brought Han's writing to a younger generation.
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