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South Korea's Han Kang wins literature Nobel Prize

South Korean author Han Kang delivering a speech at a lecture in Gwangju. [AFP]

Author Han Kang on Thursday became the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for work characterised by the correspondence between mental and physical torment as well as historical events.

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