Han Seung-won (85), a novelist who is the father of author Han Kang, was "flustered" by the news of his daughter's Nobel Prize in Literature, but was happy, saying, "I felt like the world turned upside down."
In an interview with CBS radio's "Kim Hyun-jung's News Show" aired on the 11th, writer Han Seung-won said, "There were many cases where (Nobel Prize) found an unexpected person and won the prize," adding, "I didn't expect it at all even if I had such an idea just in case our river might get on."
According to author Han Seung-won, Han Kang heard the award by phone from Sweden at around 7:50 p.m., just before the presentation of the Nobel Prize in Literature at 8 p.m. (Korea Standard Time).
As for his daughter's literary world, he said, "It's a tragedy in Korean, but tragedy is a tragedy wherever it is presented, and it's a very deep, beautiful and sad expression of the tragedy emotionally and lyrically."
He continued, "I think it was probably said that he was a writer who had a special meaning from 'vegetarian'. Then came "The Boy Is Coming" and then "I Don't Say Goodbye" (가) 4). "As Gwangju and 4.3 are connected, violence called the state, trauma from the world, and some kind of love for soft humans, and such things were firmly buried." I think the judges captured that."
Finally, he said, "There is nothing to throw away about Kang's novel. Each one is a masterpiece. I'm sure it's not just because the hedgehog says my baby is pretty," he said, proud.
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