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Man Booker Prize Winning Author Han Kang to Win Italy’s Most Authoritative Literary Award

Man Booker Prize Winning Author Han Kang to Win Italy’s Most Authoritative Literary Award

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 [...]

Who Will Be the Next Han Kang, Writer of Man Booker Honored “The Vegetarian”?

Who Will Be the Next Han Kang, Writer of Man Booker Honored “The Vegetarian”?

SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Ever since Korean novelist Hang Kang received the world-renowned Man Booker international literary award, attention has been growing in literary circles as to which Korean novelists will carry on the globalization of Korean literature. Various domestic novelists are being introduced to overseas countries one by one due to the [...]