Saito Mariko, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, announced the Literature Translation Institute of Korea on Thursday.
In Han Kang’s Human Acts (2016), an 18-year-old who witnessed the violent put-down of a student protest, calls up the local administration’s offices every day to ask why the fountain in the ...
There are hidden family stories, and tales of love and loss both real and imagined in this month's best books, as recommended by ABC Arts critics and readers.
In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about ... of The New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st Century.) ...
It has become the world’s most influential award for translated fiction. Among the six works on the shortlist in 2016 was a short novel in three parts, by a 46-year-old poet and creative writing ...
Han Kang became a celebrity last year when she won the Nobel Prize in literature. By contrast, Kyungha, the narrator of her new novel We Do Not Part, is a long way away from fame or fulfillment.