News from Abroad (27)

Thriller's a movie beaming off the pages
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- English
Thriller's a movie beaming off the pages

Singapore
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The Straights Times
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May 28, 2019

The Plotters by South Korean writer Kim Un-Su is one such book. It is poised somewhere between the viscerally pulpy John Wick film franchise and Ernest Hemingway's fatalistic 1927 short story The Killers, but with an entirely Korean sensibility. It is a superb example of its genre, insofar as...
Han Kang och Kim Un-Su till Bokmässan
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- Swedish
Han Kang och Kim Un-Su till Bokmässan

Sweden
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Göteborgs-Posten
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Apr 15, 2019

I höst deltar Kim Un-Su, Han Kang och övriga sydkoreanska gästerna i en rad aktiviteter och seminarium, för att belysa sin vardag som författare och den rådande kulturella och politiska situationen i sitt hemland.
Pressmeddelande Prisbelönta Han Kang kommer till årets Bokmässa
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- Swedish
Pressmeddelande Prisbelönta Han Kang kommer till årets Bokmässa

Sweden
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SVENSKA MASSAN
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Apr 15, 2019

Sydkorea är i år hedersgäst och temaland på Bokmässan den 26–29 september. Landets litteratur, kultur och samhälle kommer att speglas genom Sydkoreas främsta författare och poeter. En av gästerna som kommer till mässan är den prisbelönta författaren Han Kang. I år är det också 60 år sedan Sverige...
‘The Plotters’ offers chilling portrait of killer for hire
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‘The Plotters’ offers chilling portrait of killer for hire

U.S.A.
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Houston Chronicle
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Jan 24, 2019

It’s a bull market for fictional hit men. Among recent assassin-centric thrillers is Malcolm Mackay’s brilliant Glasgow Trilogy: “The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter,” “How a Gunman Says Goodbye” and “The Sudden Arrival of Violence,” plus a couple of stand-alones by the same author. Now comes...
Don't Judge 'The Plotters' By Its Cover ... Blurb
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Don't Judge 'The Plotters' By Its Cover ... Blurb

U.S.A.
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NPR
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Jan 28, 2019

They say you shouldn't judge books by their covers, but seldom are we warned you shouldn't judge them by their blurbs. Logic indicates it's useless to grow too attached to blurbs, and yet they seem to color our perception of novels. Sometimes blurbs taunt us, sometimes they underwhelm us (how many...

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International Events (5)

Brive International Book Fair
- Event
- France
Brive International Book Fair

2018/11/09 to 2018/11/11

From November 9 to 13, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) held a Korean literary event at the Foire du livre de Brive, and supported the participation of author Kim Un-su (whose short story anthology Jab! Was recently published in France) at the event. First held in 1973, the...
The Paris International Book Fair
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- France
The Paris International Book Fair

2016/03/17 to 2016/03/20

Korea was invited as the Guest of Honor at the 2016 Paris International Book Fair, held from March 16–20, in celebration of 130 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and France. Nearly 3,000 writers from 45 countries attended the fair where around 800 events were held. A total of 30 Korean...
French literary festival "Meeting"
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- France
French literary festival "Meeting"

2015/11/19 to 2015/11/25

LTI Korea took part in the literary festival “Meeting” held in Saint-Nazaire and Paris from November 19 to 25. Korea was invited as the Guest of Honor at the festival this year in commemoration of 130 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and France. The theme this year was “Traduire la Vie...
Tokyo International Book Fair
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- Japan
Tokyo International Book Fair

2015/07/01 to 2015/07/04

LTI Korea participated at the 2015 Tokyo International Book Fair from July 1 to 4, together with writers Kang Young-sook and Kim Un-su. On June 30, a day before the fair was set to open, writer Kim Un-su gave a lecture on the topic “Why I Write” at Gakushuin University. The writer spoke in an...
Saint-Loius Literary Festival
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- France
Saint-Loius Literary Festival

2013/05/01 to 2013/05/08

The two writers Cheon Un-yeong and Kim Un-su, who were invited to the Saint-Louis Literary Festival in France, met with French readers from May 3rd to 5th. The writers’ works, Farewell, Circus! (Adieu le cirque!) by Cheon and The Cabinet (Le Placard) by Kim were translated and each published by...

Translated Books (15)

The Plotters
- Book
- English
- Available
The Plotters

Australia
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KIM UN-SU
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김언수
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2018
/ Literature - Korean literature - Contemporary fiction

The important thing is not who pulls the trigger but who’s behind the person who pulls the trigger—the plotters, the masterminds working in the shadows. Raised by Old Raccoon in The Library of Dogs,...
DIE PLOTTER
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- German
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DIE PLOTTER

Germany
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Un-su Kim
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김언수
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2018
/ Literature - Korean literature - Contemporary fiction

Raeseng ist Killer von Beruf, seit ihn Old Raccoon als Kind bei sich aufnahm und ausbildete. Aufgewachsen an einem geheimen Rückzugsort in Seoul, einer Bibliothek voller alter Bücher, gehört er zur...
The Plotters
- Book
- English
- Available
- Purchase
The Plotters

Australia
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KIM UN-SU
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김언수
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2018
/ Literature - Korean literature - Contemporary fiction

The important thing is not who pulls the trigger but who's behind the person who pulls the trigger - the plotters, the masterminds working in the shadows. Raised by Old Raccoon in The Library of Dogs...
Jab !
- Book
- French
- Available
- Purchase
Jab !

France
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KIM UN-SU
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김언수
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2018
/ Literature - Korean literature - Contemporary fiction

Colère et incompréhension animent les principaux personnages de Jab ! À commencer par un lycéen qui apprend la boxe (jab est un coup de poing direct) pour se venger de l'humiliation que lui a fait...
Brèves 105: Corée du sud
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- French
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Brèves 105: Corée du sud

France
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OH JUNG-HI
KIM UN-SU
Kim Mi-wol
Gong Ji-young
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오정희
김언수
김미월
공지영
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2014
/ Literature - Periodicals

Numéro de la revue Brèves : Anthologie de la nouvelle contemporaine, consacré aux nouvelles coréennes. Le mot de l'éditeur La nouvelle occupe une place de choix dans le panorama de la littérature...