prize for The Vegetarian han-kang-deborah-smith-vegetarian-getty.jpg Han Kang (right) and her Vegetarian GETTY International prize for her book The Vegetarian, sharing the £50,000 The Vegetarian is a dark and occasionally shocking novel about a woman who turns vegetarian - something that is extremely uncommon in South The Vegetarian by Han Kang; trans. Deborah Smith, book review: Strong The Vegetarian was her first success attempt to translate a Korean work