Yesterday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to 53-year-old author Han Kang, the first South Korean to receive this prestigious award.

The academy justified its choice by saying that she deserved the prize for "her intense poetic prose that confronts trauma and exposes the fragility of human life", according to some international websites.

He adds that Han Kang's work is characterized by a "double exposure of pain, a correspondence between mental and physical torment with close links to Eastern thought".

His best-known work is "The Vegetarian", for which he won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, as well as books such as "Human Acts" and "The White Book".

The prize, it should be noted, has a cash value of 11 million Swedish kronor (67,200,000 meticais).

Han Kang is the 18th woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The daughter of a well-known South Korean writer, Han Kang was born in the South Korean city of Gwangiu in 1970 and moved with her family to Seoul at the age of nine.

He began his career with the publication of a series of poems in the magazine "Literatura e Sociedade" (1993) and in prose with the collection of short stories "Amor de Yeosu" (1995), which was followed by other novels and short stories.