Author Han Kang becomes the first Korean and the first Asian woman writer to walk the Nobel Prize Blue Carpet.
The 124th Nobel Prize ceremony will be held Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden.
The ceremony, which will last about 1 hour and 10 minutes, will begin with the entrance of Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf, Queen Silvia, and other royal family members.
Once the king, queen, and other royal attendees are seated to the right of the stage, this year’s Nobel laureates and members of each Nobel Committee will enter together from both sides.
As the laureates enter, everyone in the concert hall, including the king and queen, will rise to pay their highest respects to the awardees.
After all participants are seated, a Nobel Foundation representative will officially open the event. Following this, King Gustaf will present Nobel diplomas and medals to Han Kang and the other laureates across the five categories. As each laureate receives their award, the audience will again offer congratulations and respect.
Han, who will be introduced in Korean, is scheduled to receive her fourth award, following the Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine awards.
At the ceremony, the laureates will not give separate acceptance speeches. This is because laureates previously delivered lectures in place of speeches and will have the opportunity to share brief remarks, lasting about three minutes, at the banquet held immediately after the ceremony at Stockholm City Hall.
During her laureate lecture last Saturday, Han spoke for about 30 minutes, offering an overview of her literary world and stating, “All my questions have always pointed toward love.”
Attention is now focused on whether her remarks at the banquet will be a condensed version of her lecture or contain entirely new content.
The ceremony will be broadcast worldwide through the Nobel Foundation’s YouTube and other platforms.
