Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday, for “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” She is the first writer from South Korea to be awarded the literature prize.

Welcome to our live coverage of the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The prize is among the most prestigious in the scientific world. It will be awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute medical university.

The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her "intense poetic prose."