Comment "Email" to get Asian American news like this sent to your inbox every morning 🍵⁠ ⁠ Han Kang has made history by becoming the first Asian woman and first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. ⁠ ⁠ The Swedish Academy awarded her the prestigious prize for her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”⁠ ⁠ With her award, Han, 53, also became this year’s first female Nobel laureate and the second South Korean Nobel winner after former President Kim Dae-jung, who received the Peace Prize in 2000. Han will be awarded 11 million Swedish krona ($1 million) along with a medal and certificate at the prize ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10. ⁠ ⁠ Han's works often confront societal norms and historical trauma, such as “Human Acts,” which centers on the 1980 Gwangju Uprising. Her breakthrough came with “The Vegetarian,” a surreal novel that won the 2016 International Booker Prize and explores themes of rebellion, identity and...