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South Korean literature has come of age, writes Man Booker winning translator

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Article
http://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/1946102/south-korean-literature-has-come-age-writes-man-booker-winning
Journal
South China Morning Post
Issued Date
May 17, 2016
Page
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Language
English(English)
Country
HONG KONG
City
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Book
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Writer
Shin Kyung-sook , Han Kang , Hwang Sun-mi

About the Author

  • Kyung-Sook Shin
  • Birth : 1963 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kyung-sook
  • Family Name : Shin
  • Korean Name : 신경숙
  • ISNI : 000000008374681X
  • Works : 136
Descriptions - 1 Languages
  • English(English)

As with most national literatures, it is both useful and not so useful to define South Korea’s current crop of new and recently emerging writers as a collective. There’s as much variety in contemporary Korean fiction as anywhere else and it’s not unusual for writers to be poles apart in terms of what and how they write. Han Kang is first South Korean to win Man Booker International Prize, sharing literature award with translator South Korean critics often take 1987, the year which saw the nation’s first democratic elections, as a cut-off point when defining their country’s “contemporary” writing, a choice that feeds directly into characterisation of this writing as apolitical. In this rather lazy binary, literature pre-1987 gained its purpose – and value – from being strongly yoked to the ideological goal of resisting and critiquing authoritarian rule. Therefore, once this was (seemingly) achieved, writers were left rudderless, and literature became “merely” cultural.....     Source: http://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/1946102/south-korean-literature-has-come-age-writes-man-booker-winning

Translated Books346 See More

  • Indonesian(Bahasa Indonesia) Book Available
    Please Look After Mom
    Kyung-Sook Shin et al / 신경숙 / 2011
  • Japanese(日本語) Book Available
    すばる
    Kyung-Sook Shin et al / 신경숙 et al / 1998
  • Chinese(汉语) Book Available
    单人房
    Kyung-Sook Shin et al / 신경숙 / 2006

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