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Nobel Prize in literature is awarded to South Korean author Han Kang
The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm. Han, 53, won the International…
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Bestselling author Julia Alvarez is the subject of a new PBS documentary
Alvarez reflected on how it took her a while to understand the traumas of a dictatorship through her parents. “They were always so afraid of us speaking up, and always suspicious, and it helped me to understand them and their generation,” she said. “The trauma, even after the dictator dies, a people is traumatized; the…