The moment when writer Han Kang receives the Nobel Prize in Literature will be broadcast live on YouTube.
The Nobel Prize ceremony will be held on the midnight of the 10th at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden. At this event, Han Kang will become the first Korean and the first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, and this will be broadcast live on YouTube.
The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony will be held at 9 p.m. on the same day at Oslo City Hall in Norway, while the remaining literature, economics, chemistry, physics, and physiology/medicine institutional sectors' ceremonies will be held at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden.
The ceremony will begin with a speech by Astrid Bidding, director of the Nobel Foundation. The presenters will be King Carl Gustaf XVI of Sweden, who will announce the winners after representatives from each institutional sector's prize-awarding institution deliver their speeches. At this time, the recipients will receive medals and certificates.
The literature prize presentation speech will be given by Ellen Mattson, a Swedish novelist and lifetime member of the Swedish Academy who participated in the selection of the awardees. A unique feature of the Nobel Prize certificate is that the illustrations change every year, and especially for the literature prize, it is made of leather parchment.
The ceremony will last about an hour. After the ceremony, the recipients are scheduled to attend a banquet held at Stockholm City Hall. The Nobel banquet speech will be held tomorrow morning at the Stockholm City Hall in Sweden.
On the 6th of this month, Han Kang stated in a press conference regarding the domestic martial law situation, “The attitude of the young police and soldiers was impressive,” and noted, “I felt that they were trying to make decisions in unexpected situations and were moving as passively as possible while feeling internal conflict.”
Additionally, in Korea, there is interest in what message Han Kang will add as an acceptance speech.