WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Renowned Korean American author Min Jin Lee on Thursday congratulated South Korean author Han Kang on her historic win of the Nobel Prize in literature this week, saying Han deserves “this global recognition.” The Swedish Academy announced Han as this year’s laureate, recognizing the 53-year-old “for her intense poetic [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Following South Korean novelist Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win, the publishing house associated with her English translator has hailed the achievement as “a huge win for translated fiction.” Tilted Axis Press, co-founded by Deborah Smith, one of Han Kang’s translators, took to social media to express its jubilation on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Novelist Han Kang received a prestigious literary award in France last week for her book “I Do Not Bid Farewell.” “The Vegetarian” author, for which she won the International Booker Prize in 2016, said she would much like to “bid farewell” now to stories about South Korea’s tragic history, [...]
PARIS, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean author Han Kang won a prestigious French literary award Thursday with her novel “I Do Not Bid Farewell.” The 2021 book was named the winner of the Prix Medicis award for foreign literature. The Prix Medicis, founded in 1958, is among the top literary awards honoring works [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Han Kang, the celebrated author of “The Vegetarian” and winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, is out with her first full-length novel in five years and has two words to describe it: “utmost love.” In an online press conference on Tuesday, Han said the book “I Do [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Prize-winning South Korean novelist Han Kang has handed over a novel to the Norwegian public arts project “Future Library,” with her writing to remain unpublished and unread for nearly a century. The 2016 winner of the Man Booker International prize for her novel “The Vegetarian” has been chosen as [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean novelist Han Kang, the 2016 winner of the Man Booker International Prize, has been shortlisted for the British literary award of world authority, the organizer said Thursday (British local time). Han’s “The White Book” is among the six finalists for the 2018 Man Booker prize. The 2015 [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The English version of South Korean author Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian”, winner of the Man Booker International Prize in 2016, has once again come under criticism for its many translation errors, this time in the form of a paper authored by esteemed translator Kim Dong-wook published in the 100th [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung Hwa said regarding author Han Kang’s New York Times essay titled ‘While the US Talks of War, South Korea Shudders’ that “as a writer she is entitled to her own opinion, but her understanding of history and the way she described it is [...]
ROME, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Writer Han Kang has been chosen to win this year’s Malaparte Prize, Italy’s most-authoritative literary award, for her latest work, the prize’s organizer said. Han was chosen Thursday for her 2014 novel “Human Acts” that tells the story of a young boy named Dong-ho who is killed in the military’s bloody crackdown on the [...]