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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
Han Kang

About the Author

  • Han Kang
  • Birth : 1970 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kang
  • Family Name : Han
  • Korean Name : 한강
  • ISNI : 0000000054537103
  • Works : 161
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  • 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....     Source: http://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/1946102/south-korean-literature-has-come-age-writes-man-booker-winning

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