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South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. A slow-burning international literary star who has won multiple awards in South Korea and Eur
stanley cups ope, Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. She was awarded for books, including The Vegetarian and Human Acts, that expl
stanley cup ore the pain of being human and the scars of Korea s turbulent history.Nobel literature committee member Anna-Karin Palm said Han writes about trauma, pain and loss, whether individual or collective, with the same compassion and care. And this, I think, is something that is quite remarkable, Palm said.Nobel committee chairman Anders Olsson praised Hans empathy for the vulnerable, often female lives of her characters. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, Olsson said.Han is the second South Korean national to win a Nobel Prize. Late former President Kim Dae-jung won the peace prize in 2000 for his efforts to restore democracy in South
stanley cup Korea during the countrys previous military rule and improve relations with war-divided rival North Korea.Speaking to the Swedish Academy by phone, Han said she had just finished having dinner with her son at home in Seoul when she got a call with the news.She said she was both hono Ssxg International Space Station captures images of Hurricane Ian
DETROIT AP 鈥?The global shortage of computer chips is getting worse, forcing automakers to temporarily close factories including those that build popular pickup trucks. General Motors announced Thursday that it would pause production at eight North American plants during the next two weeks, including two that make the company s top-selling Chevrolet Silverado pickup. According to the Associated Press, starting Monday, GM will close its plants in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Silao, Mexico, for a week, a plant in Wentzvill
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stanley water jug ctories in southeast Asia hard, forcing some plants to close. That s worsened a chip shortage that was starting to improve earlier in the summer.Ford and GM aren t the only car makers having to shut down plants due to the chip shortage.Stellantis closed a plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan this week and its plants in Belvidere, Illinois and Windsor, Ontario will be closed for two weeks.Nissan, which shutdown its plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, for two weeks until Aug. 30, has now pushed the closure back to four weeks, until Sept. 13.