This author created a list of subjects like waves, swaddling bands, and blank paper for a novel set in Poland during World War II. The Writer and the Factory Girl are among the chapter subjects of a novel by this author in which a middle-school boy tends to corpses during an uprising. A boy has a nightmare about a bird with hands in a novel by this author in which a woman holds a bird with bite marks in a hospital courtyard. This author of The White Book and Human Acts created a birthmark-obsessed video artist who paints flowers on his sister-in-law for a piece in one novel. One of this author’s protagonists claims to be turning into a tree after violent dreams about animal slaughter. For 10 points, what South Korean winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature wrote The Vegetarian? ■END■
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