The 2024 Literature Nobel Prize winner Han Kang speaks during a press conference at the Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona, Spain, April 22. EPA-Yonhap
Nobel Prize-winning author Han Kang will take the stage at the Berlin Philharmonic's Chamber Music Hall on Sept. 7 for a book talk launching the orchestra's new literary series for the 2026-27 season.
According to the Philharmonic's website, the event will also be a joint project with the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, with Han invited as the first guest.
Designed to bring together literature and chamber music, the 90-minute show invites prominent authors to read from and discuss their latest works, while members of the Philharmonic perform chamber pieces chosen to reflect the themes and mood of the writing.
The orchestra said it chose to launch the program with Han as a reflection of the shared qualities between her prose and classical music, both defined less by grand gestures than by precision and resonance.
"Literature, like music, reflects the world and our lives," the orchestra said on its website. "With our new series, Satzwechsel, we place the two in dialogue."
Berlin Philharmonic / Captured from Berlin Philharmonic's website
The appearance marks one of Han's few literary engagements since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2024. The author has kept a low public profile following the award.
In April, she participatedin a book talk at the Korean Cultural Center in Barcelona. Last month, the author gavean interviewto Vogue magazine discussing violence, literature and the role of artists in the time of crisis.
"Literature imagines. And very vividly, at that. I feel that the power of that vividness is especially necessary in times like these," she told the magazine.
Source: Korea Times News
