Why Did Han Kang Win the Nobel Prize? Yilin Zhong Ever since Amazon discontinued the Kindle eBook service in China, I’ve been unable to access Chinese books published locally or translated into Chinese. To date, I've only read two short stories by Han Kang: " The Plant Wife " which she wrote at 27 and later expanded into the Booker Prize-winning novel " The Vegetarian ", and " Middle Voices " published in 2023 in The New Yorker . The reason I’m writing this article, despite having read only these two stories, is that since the announcement of her award, I've seen various discussions and literary reviews in major Chinese media that feel rather off-topic. I want to clarify that while the focus of much of the media is on "The Vegetarian", which earned Han Kang international acclaim, it is not the work that won her the Nobel Prize. Instead, it was her 2014 novel "Human Acts" (translated in Chinese as " 少年来了 ...
Yilin Zhong in Sydney. March 2017 https://youtu.be/KvciZDc_cWU Novel Chinatown Interview (Part 8/8) Time: 16th February 2017 Venue: London Interviewer: UCL Documentary Film student Shi Yi Han Interviewee: Yilin Zhong (Author of book Chinatown) Topic: Chinatown, the novel Part 8-9 video length: 12’56’’ Interviewer: (In Chinese)Why do you want to answer these questions in English? Yilin Zhong: The reason I want to talk in English is, even though Chinese is my mother tongue language, some kind of thing is quite weird, that when I was writing this novel, even I was writing it in Chinese, but you know, I was educated in the UK, and all those kind of illegal immigration things and the literary theories, such as subaltern studies, and post-colonial studies, and so on, all those literary terms I’d learned in England, from the English context. So even though I wrote this novel, the fiction in Chinese, actually the main spirit, or the main thought behind this s...
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