Rónán Hession: The Vegetarian is highly original, a good place to start for anyone new to her writing
Rónán Hession: The Vegetarian is highly original, a good place to start for anyone new to her writingin Literature 2024 “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. The 53-year-old“Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life,” the judges said.
Han won international acclaim with the translation into English of The Vegetarian. It was the first novel to win the Man Booker International prize when it switched from recognising bodies of work to rewarding individual novels in 2016. It is an imaginative three-part novel in which a woman who rejects the norms of her society faces intense pressure to conform. She is abused, ostracised, force-fed and hospitalised.
Lauryn Hill and the Fugees in Dublin review: Everything fans hoped for in a great show combining soul and powerThe translation, by first-time translator Deborah Smith, was criticised by some for its creative licence, but Han spoke highly of their collaborative process. Smith used some of the proceeds from the Booker win to set up the innovative independent press for translated fiction, Tilted Axis.
The next book to be translated further underlined not only Han’s versatility, but also her delicate poetic sensibility. The White Book is a short novel, with fragmented reflections on death and grief. Written during a residency in Warsaw, the cold winter and the Cold War form a backdrop creating a monochrome simplicity for these painterly meditations on loss. Again translated by Smith, the book was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and is highly respected.
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