Nobel laureate Han Kang’s books are selling at a record pace in South Korea

Literary who won the Nobel Prize last week Han Kangin works have been sold in his home country of South Korea at an unprecedented rate, says the South Korean news agency Yonhap.

By Wednesday, more than a million copies of the author’s books had been sold in the largest bookstores and in online stores that sell books. It is a new speed record in Korea with a population of 50 million.

The previous record was held by a Japanese Haruki Murakamiwhose work 1Q84 approximately 600,000 copies were sold in two months. The book was sold for eight months before the novel reached the sales volume of one million copies.

Han Kang’s best-selling works in South Korea are Human actions, Vegetarians and Don’t leave goodbyes.

in Finland Gummerus, the publisher of Han Kang’s works, says that when the Nobel news came out of Han Kang’s four works translated into Finnish, only the latest, which appeared at the end of September, remained in print Don’t leave goodbyes – from the novel. Its edition sold out immediately.

The sales of Han Kang’s novels can be expected to accelerate in the future when new editions of all four of his Finnish novels are available.

From a favorite Vegetarian mixed Don’t leave goodbyes -new editions of the novel will be available next week. White paper and Human actions – novel will go on sale in November, says Gummerus’ communications manager From Eeva Herrains.

Han Kang made history last Thursday by becoming the first South Korean and first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

He started his career by publishing poems. The prose debut appeared in 1995. He achieved international fame Vegetarianswith his novel, which won the Booker Prize in 2016.