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A South Korean Author Hans Kang won the prestigious “Man Booker International Award” for her unforgetable powerful novel “The Vegetarian” dealing with a woman’s rejection of human brutality and giving up of eating meat.
Kang beat writers including Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk and International best seller Alena Ferrante to win the 50,000 pounds award which shared by her with her Novel’s translator Deborah Smith published by Porto Bello Books. “The Vegetarian” was selected unanimously among 155 books by a panel of judges. Kang is presently teaching creative writing at the Seoul institute of the Arts, is already very popular in South Korea. She also won Yisang Literary Prize.