IN ART and literature, realism means depicting things as they are, but a fiction writer is not a historian or sociologist and, therefore, realism does not mean that a writer has to write the “detailed ...

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And the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature is … Han Kang, the first South Korean to receive the honor. The 53-year-old author is known for her poetic prose and exploration of historical ...