Nearly two years after Kyung-Sook Shin’s Please Look After Mom became the first book by a Korean author to win the Man Asian Literary Prize for her novel Please Look After Mom, Korean author Han Kang has taken the first step towards a possible similar triumph by being longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Vegetarian…
Following up on the last post, I took a quick look at Powell’s Bookstores in Portland. Sadly, I won’t have time to check them out, but the website reveals: That is actual copies on shelves!!
Amazingly happy news at a US bookstore! Meeting one of my ex-students from Dongguk University, and we chose to meet for coffee at a bookstore with a coffeeshop in the back. I walk into the front door of the Elliot Bay Bookstore (an unbelievably great bookstore in Seattle, WA. Address: 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 Phone:…
A while ago on this blog I was semi-complaining about the cover for Kyung-sook Shin’s new book. You can see that semi-whine here. So it was with great happiness that I show the following two book covers for Han Kang’s awesome and terrifying novel Vegetarian. While the Shin cover is cliches in search of a…
Two contributors, the Editor and the Translator arrived at Le Café, near exit 7 of Yangjae Station, about 15 minutes in advance of our meeting. Our photographer arrived a few minutes later, and author Han Gang arrived exactly at the stroke of 3, as we had arranged. Then, she was quickly bustled off to a…
A couple of short thing of interest found whilst hopping, skipping, and jumping across the internet. • First, the news that Han Kang (always my favorite Korean author name, even if it is a nom-de-plue), whose Wikipedia page KTLIT was proud to create) has had her work Vegetarian, translated in Argentina. This work has been…
KTLIT puts Korean Author Han Gang Up on the Wikipedia