Yi Sang
"Mongolian Mark" won the Yi Sang Literary Award. The rest of the series ("The Vegetarian" and "Fire Tree") were delayed by contractual problems. Han was the youngest to receive Yi Sang Literary Award in 2005 until 2013 when Kim Aeran received it at the age of 32. Her "Human Acts" was released in January 2016 from Portobello Books. Han has been chosen to win the Malaparte Prize 2017 with the Italian translation of "Human Acts", "Atti Umani" from Adelphi Edizioni, 2017 in Italy on 1 October 2017.