Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars
Han Kang, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has declined to hold a press conference, citing the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The replies here are a freaking dumpster fire. What is this, Twitter?
good publicity for his book and work in general.
Good for her, and I admire her ethical position. That said, I wish that she or another laureate would actually use their press conference to denounce the Nobel Prize in Literature committee for having given one to Bob Dylan. A big ask, but someone needs to do it.
Disgraceful. How dare she display humanitarian concerns and attitudes. What if everybody did similiar