This is an introductory booklet on novelist Hwang Sok-yong, produced for the 2014 London Book Fair Korea Market Focus. At the literary event at Free Word Centre—Tales from Asia—on April 7, Hwang read from his work Princess Bari and discuss modernization, ideology and conflict, and experience of incarceration with another writer and a chair from the UK. Hwang participated in the literary seminar “Writing Literature after History” (April 8, Whitehall Room), where he discussed the role of the writer in Korean society—impacted by the Korean War and the division between North and South—and how history could be adequately represented in fiction. On April 10, he shared a conversation with Jo Glanville in PEN Salon, Earls Court Exhibition Centre about his early and recent works (The Shadow of Arms and Princess Bari), writing in Korean contexts, and North Korean literature. This 26-page booklet consists of: “About the Author”, “About the Work” and “Excerpts”