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 [...]
SEOUL, July 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean literature attracted international attention with Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’ winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. And to add to the heightened interest, the Korea Foundation (KF), which operates under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is hosting what it calls a ‘Korean Literary Workshop for International Doctoral Program [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – “Doubting whether I could really write well was the biggest obstacle I had to overcome. I tried to remember that I was desperate to write every time I felt that way.” Han Kang, who recently won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction with her novel “The Vegetarian”, sat down for [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of novels in May spiked after Han Kang’s win of the Man Booker International Prize for her novel The Vegetarian. Online bookstore Yes24 revealed Monday that May sales of novels increased by 58.6 percent from its average monthly sales until April this year. Domestic novels accounted for 46.9 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean author Han Kang has been receiving renewed attention in the local book market Tuesday on news that her novel “The Vegetarian” won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. Online bookstore Yes24 said sales of the novel amounted to 5,800 during the ten hours following 6 a.m. Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 14, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2014 London Book Fair was held for three days from April 8 to April 10 at Earls Court, London. Korea was the fair’s “market focus” this year, or guest of honor, with its own pavilion at the fair. This is the first time for Korean publishers [...]