>> "There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality."

That means the opposite of "Life isn't fair". Partiality - unfair bias in favor of one thing or person compared with another; favoritism.

She's written, in that quote, that life is fair.

I don't think she is best known for a beautiful, insightful writing styles. To understand this case better, you probably want to understand the modern history of S. Korea, especially the connection between her book "Human acts" and the Gwangju massacre.

EDIT: Actually Nobel Committee's bibliography does a good job on her works.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/bio-biblio...

And vice versa. So many English works translated to Korean read like chewing sand.

It doesn't help that books don't sell well in Korea and translators are poorly paid. Often you can literally see "Oh the original English word must be X, because it doesn't make sense and the translator just used the more popular meaning of the word!"

I don't think that has anything to do with the continent. People like Haruki Murakami and Liu Cixin have achieved immense reader-bases with their English translations.

Even knowing no asian languages, I can just feel something missing, especially in the first sentence there

It's in reference to the Physics prize going to Hinton and Hopfield for "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks." and the Chemistry prize to Google DeepMind's founder Demis Hassabis, alongside with John Jumper (Google Deepmind) and David Baker for Alpha fold. Both prizes were given to significant figures in the AI space or use of AI applications.

I am fairly certain that as an AI language model, it can't win any prize =)

> Similarly, just because the Nobel for literature goes to a niche literary author you don't know/like doesn't demean whatever your reading preferences are.

You know how things work. The media starts to chant about how great those winners are, with only a few seriously digging into the actual works. They are quickly followed by internet trolls who derail every discussion by insisting that these are masterpieces certified by big-name committees, claiming that we, the lowly masses, must accept the decisions of the great authority as the absolute truth of our lives.

Every awards season is like this, and I now hate awards

They tend to be awarded only to works treating depressing subjects. Or to authors in depressing situations.

When was the last time an Oscar or a literature prize (Nobel but not only) has been awarded to something funny?

Obama getting the peace prize after less than a year as president. He had not done anything extraordinary related to peacse and he seemed mostly embarassed to receive it given that

Ok, the physics prize is given by swedes. The overall point stands though; there's a massive nationalist bias to the Nobels that is well known: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Sweden-have-so-many-Nobel-lau...

I used to think that Nobel committee was made up of researchers around the world, and the Nobel dudes would just present it for a ceremony. Nope, it's really just people from one college who are picking these prizes.

Bob Dylan?