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South Korea
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South Korea is represented in the reader ranking by Han Kang and Min Jin Lee. Han Kang’s novel “The Vegetarian”, set in present-day Seoul, was published in 2007, and its English translation won the International Booker Prize in 2016. In 2024 Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Korean writer to receive it.
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