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Han Kang: ‘Writing about a massacre was a struggle. I’m a person who feels pain when you throw meat on a fire’

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Article
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/05/han-kang-interview-writing-massacre
Journal
The Guardian
Issued Date
February 05, 2016
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED KINGDOM
City
-
Book
Human Acts
Writer
Han Kang
Translator
Deborah Smith

About the Author

  • Han Kang
  • Birth : 1970 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kang
  • Family Name : Han
  • Korean Name : 한강
  • ISNI : 0000000054537103
  • Works : 160
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  • English(English)

Han is a charismatically thoughtful woman, who wrote herself into the final section of Human Acts in order to explain why she felt compelled to tell the story. “I was nine years old at the time of the Gwangju Uprising,” it begins. Gwangju, a city in the south of the country, had been her home until four months before the massacre, when her father gave up his teaching job to become a full-time writer and moved the family to the capital Seoul. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/05/han-kang-interview-writing-massacre

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