News from Abroad (38)

Book review: Kim Un-su's The Plotters is a riveting, cinematic thriller about assassins in a library
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Book review: Kim Un-su's The Plotters is a riveting, cinematic thriller about assassins in a library

Singapore
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The StraitsTimes
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May 27, 2019

Screen adaptations of books are a dime a dozen these days. A hot title comes on the market and you can expect to see it on the screen in a year or so. But once in a while, along comes a book so inherently cinematic that it is practically a movie beaming off the pages. The Plotters by South Korean...
Los Conspiradores: Un-Su Kim
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Los Conspiradores: Un-Su Kim

Mexico
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La Jornada Zacatecas
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August 17, 2019

Es difícil no sentir cierta simpatía por Reseng. Es el complejo y a veces fastidioso protagonista de “Los Conspiradores” (Océano 2019). Una muy buena novela de un joven narrador coreano hasta ahora totalmente desconocido para mí: Un-Su Kim. Un joven novelista a quien ya la crítica literaria europea...
The Plotters by Un-su Kim review – a sniper in Seoul
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The Plotters by Un-su Kim review – a sniper in Seoul

U.K.
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The Guardian
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March 1, 2019

In his increasingly curmudgeonly later years, Kingsley Amis claimed only to favour novels that began: “A shot rang out.” The opening of Korean author Un-su Kim’s The Plotters has the potential to satisfy that boozy reactionary of English letters, as a hired gun lines up his prey in the telescopic...
‘The Plotters’ is a chilling portrait of a killer for hire
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‘The Plotters’ is a chilling portrait of a killer for hire

U.S.A.
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The Washington Post
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January 23, 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...
After K-pop, translated Korean books are now the latest obsession — here are the top Korean authors you should read right now
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After K-pop, translated Korean books are now the latest obsession — here are the top Korean authors you should read right now

Singapore
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BURO
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February 18, 2019

From K-pop girl groups to the trend-setting runways of Seoul Fashion Week, South Korea has the world transfixed with their unique take on arts and culture. With more than 80 literary works set to be translated and published in 22 languages, Korean authors are now set to spark plenty of buzz in 2019...

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International Events (5)

Brive International Book Fair
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- 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
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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 !
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- French
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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...