The Korea Times
Han Kang, the first Asian woman and Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, appeared at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona Tuesday in her first official public event since winning the prestigeous award in 2024. The event was hosted by the Korean Cultural Center in Spain to mark the Spanish-language publication of her 2010 novel, "Ink and Blood." All 600 in-person tickets sold out within a minute after going on sale. An additional 200 online streaming tickets were exhausted within 10 minutes, reflecting strong anticipation among local readers. Han appeared in conversation with Mar Garcia Puig, a Spanish author who has won several of Spain's leading literary prizes, discussing themes of empathy, collective trauma, mourning, silence and friendship. The two writers explored the role literature can play in resisting forgetting and tending to collective wounds. "Ink and Blood," published in Spanish in March 2026, is Han's eighth book to appear in that language. The novel follows Jeong-hui, who fights to prove that her friend In-ju's death was not a suicide. It has been descri
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