South Korea's Han Kang wins Nobel Literature Prize

South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The 53-year-old fiction writer is a former winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her 2007 novel The Vegetarian.

At the ceremony she was praised “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

The Nobel Prize committee has awarded the literary award since 1901 and this marks the 18th time a woman has won the prize.

Kang is the first South Korean winner of the prize, who was discussed by the Nobel Prize board as someone who has "devoted herself to music and art"

The statement also added that her work crosses boundaries by exploring a broad span of genres.