The author of "The Vegetarian" and "The White Book" wins this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. She becomes only the 18th woman to win the prize.View on euronews

South Korean writer Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy announced on Thursday, for her “intense prose” that “exposes the fragility of human life.” She is best known internationally for her novel “The Vegetarian,” about a woman who believes she is turning into a plant, which was translated into English in 2015.

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.