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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
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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. From Han Kang to Shin Kyung Sook, we've rounded up four of the biggest names you should check out right now.
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[Audio Book] The PlottersKIM UN-SU
/2019Behind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind—a plotter—working in the shadows. Plotters quietly dictate the moves of the city's most dangerous criminals, but their existence is little more than legend. Just who are the plotters? And more important, what do they want? Reseng is an... -
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Znajomy światHwang Sok-yong
/2018„To bez wątpienia najsilniejszy głos współczesnej Azji". Kenzaburō Ōe, laureat Literackiej Nagrody Nobla„Potężna refleksja nad kapitalizmem w wykonaniu jednego z najznakomitszych koreańskich pisarzy. Hwang wzywa nas do spojrzenia w przeszłość i namysłu nad tym, jakim kosztem dokonała się ewolucja... -
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The White BookHan Kang
/2019Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds... -
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The PlottersUn-su Kim
/2019A thriller like you've never read one before, from the hottest new voice in Korean fiction 'Kill Bill meets Murakami' D. B. John, author of Star of the North 'A work of literary genius' Karen Dionne, internationally bestselling author of Home 'I loved it!' M. W. Craven, author of The Puppet Show '... -
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Die PlotterUn-su Kim
/2018Raeseng 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 Killer-Elite Koreas. Denn Old Raccoon ist ein Plotter. Als Kopf der Organisation "Library of Dogs"... -
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At DuskHwang Sok-yong
/2018In the evening of his life, a wealthy man begins to wonder if he might have missed the point. Park Minwoo is a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighbourhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of development in his country. Now the director of a large architectural firm, his hard work... -
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The Court DancerKyung-sook Shin
/2018Set during the dramatic final years of the Korean Empire, the new novel from Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin features a mysterious dancer caught up in the dizzying sweep of history. Based on a remarkable true story, the New York Times bestselling author of Please Look After Mom... -
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Le PlacardKIM UN-SU
/2017Immersion dans une société de l'absurde, pourtant pas si éloignée de la réalité... Un trentenaire, après des années de formation et de tentatives, trouve enfin un emploi auprès d'un laboratoire public. L'unique tâche qui lui est confiée étant de vérifier le matériel livré chaque matin... Ses... -
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MenschenwerkHan Kang
/2017»Han Kang zu lesen ist wie in einen Strudel aus Brutalität und Zärtlichkeit geworfen zu werden, aus dem man durchgeschüttelt, perplex und tief bewegt wieder auftaucht.« Doris Dörrie Ein Junge ist gestorben, und die Hinterbliebenen müssen weiterleben. Doch was ist ihnen ihr Leben noch wert? Han Kang... -
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Human Acts [Audio Book]Han Kang
/2017July 4, 2016 After winning the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian , Han has written a harrowing second novel that traces the long-term reverberations from South Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which government troops killed anywhere between 200 and 2,000 civilians in the chaos... -
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Familiar ThingsHwang Sok-yong
/2017Seoul. On the outskirts of South Korea's glittering metropolis is a place few people know about: a vast landfill site called Flower Island. Home to those driven from the city by poverty, is it here that 14-year-old Bugeye and his mother arrive, following his father's internment in a government 're-... -
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Human ActsHan Kang
/2016From the internationally bestselling author of THE VEGETARIAN, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice In the midst of a violent student uprising in South Korea, a young boy named Dong-ho is shockingly killed. The story of this... -
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The Girl Who Wrote LonelinessKyung-sook Shin
/2015Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl has just arrived in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long, sun-less days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve... -
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The Shadow of ArmsHwang Suk-Young
/2014A novel of the black markets of the South Vietnamese city of Da Nang during the Vietnam War, based on the author's experiences as a self-described South Korean mercenary on the side of the South Vietnamese, this is a Vietnam War novel like no other, truly one that sees the war from all sides... -
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Princess Bari [Kindle Edition]Hwang Sok-yong
/2015In a drab North Korean city, a seventh daughter is born to a couple longing for a son. Abandoned hours after her birth, she is eventually rescued by her grandmother. The old woman names the child Bari, after a legend telling of a forsaken princess who undertakes a quest for an elixir that will... -
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El huésped [Kindle Edition]Hwang Sok-yong
Fue publicado en Corea en el 2001, siendo un bestseller en su país de origen. En El huésped —como llaman a la viruela en la tradición coreana—, el autor compara dos ideologías occidentales: catolicismo y marxismo, con una plaga mortal, causa de muchos conflictos. Por primera vez en muchos años, el... -
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Por favor, cuida de mamá [Kindle Edition]Kyung-sook Shin
Park So-nyo, una humilde campesina, ha sido durante toda la vida una abnegada madre de familia, una mujer que siempre lo ha sacrificado todo para dar una educación a sus hijos. Ahora, tras haberse perdido en la estación central de Seúl cuando iba a visitar a sus hijos a la ciudad, su búsqueda... -
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Cuentos coreanos del siglo XX [Kindle Edition]Hyeon Jin-Geon
/2004En su mayor parte, los últimos cien años de la literatura coreana han transcurrido entre el dolor y la violencia. Si bien la península se deshizo desus últimos vestigios feudales y accedió a la modernidad a partir de lacaída de la dinastía Choson (1392-1910), en las décadas siguientes... -
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The Old GardenHWANG SOK-YOUNG
/2011Political prisoner Hyun Woo is freed after eighteen years to find no trace of the world he knew. The friends with whom he shared utopianist dreams are gone. His Seoul is unrecognizably transformed and aggressively modernized. Yoon Hee, the woman he loved, died three years ago. A broken man, he... -
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I'll Be Right ThereKyung-sook Shin
/2014Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I'll Be Right There follows Jung Yoon, a highly literate, twenty-something woman, as she recounts her tragic personal history as well as those of her three intimate college friends. When Yoon receives a distressing phone call from... -
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Please Look After Mom [Audio book]Kyung-sook Shin
/2011A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.Told through the... -
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Please Look After MomKyung-sook Shin
/2011A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea--a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation--this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.Told through the... -
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The guestHwang Sok-yong
/2011Based on actual events, The Guest is a profound portrait of a divided people haunted by a painful past, and a generation's search for reconciliation. During the Korean War, Hwanghae Province in North Korea was the setting of a gruesome fifty-two day massacre. In an act of collective amnesia the...
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Komplocular
"Endişelenme. İnsan kolay kolay ölmez. Kafasından vurulup beyninde kurşunla otuz yıl hayatta kalan da var. Cenazeci, tabutun kapağına çivi çakarken dirilen de... Yaşamak, böyle şaşırtıcı, zalim ve... -
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Bílá kniha
Bílá kniha je intimní meditací o barvě. Náladu uvozuje výčet bílých věcí: sůl, sníh, led, měsíc, rýže, vlny, magnólie... Zároveň jde o autobiograficky laděné rozjímání nad smrtí vypravěččiny sestry,... -
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Истории. рассказанные луне
Хрупкость человеческого существования, неумолимая скоротечность отведенного каждому из нас земного времени, невозможность проникнуть во внутренний мир другого человека и его до конца понять - все это... -
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Blanco
A partir de la redacción aparentemente banal de una lista de cosas blancas, Han Kang hace un conmovedor ejercicio de introspección, buscando el epicentro de su dolor existencial. En algunas culturas... -
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Los Planificadores
Lo importante no es quién dispara, sino quién está detrás del que aprieta el gatillo. Los planificadores trabajan en la sombra para organizar crímenes que ejecutarán asesinos profesionales como...
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Roman / Sang chaud de Kim Un-su : critique
Sang Chaud, c’est Le Parrain à la sauce coréenne, dans l’ambiance glauque et sordide du port de Busan, port tentaculaire de la Corée. Si Séoul est Paris, Busan c’est Marseille. Ses habitants ont le sang chaud, la pègre tient le haut du pavé et les docks abritent tous les trafics. Entre le Japon et... -
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Knygos recenzija. Shin Kyung-sook „Ri Džinė“ – Korėjos karalystės intrigose
XIX amžiaus pabaigos Korėja – dar kitaip tuomet vadinta Čosono karalyste. Intrigų ir įtakų paieškos metas, kai į šalį skverbiasi vis daugiau Vakarų pasaulio gyvenimo detalių. Į šalį, kuri yra uždara, tačiau intriguojanti savo geografine vieta. Į griežtas kasdienybės tradicijas turinčią šalį,... -
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Znovu ožít ve slovech. Han Kang vyměnila román za báseň o zmrtvýchvstání
V roce 2016 získala jihokorejská autorka International Booker Prize za román Vegetariánka, chválu sklidila i za znepokojivé vylíčení masakru ve městě Kwangdžu v knize Kde kvete tráva. I se třetí do češtiny přeloženou prózou, nazvanou Bílá kniha, potvrzuje Han Kang pověst osobité spisovatelky, která... -
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LA VEGETARIANA Han Kang
La Vegetariana: un titolo fuorviante. Non c’è niente qua che riguardi la scelta alimentare a cui noi siamo sempre più abituati, dovuta a motivi morali o di salute. Yeong-hye è una donna tranquilla che da un giorno all’altro, dopo un incubo tremendo, decide di eliminare completamente dalla sua vita... -
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When students rise in protest, in the pages of novels: Six books to read
Resistance, when led by the youth, is fiery and inspirational. Oppression by governments wearing the face of a state, stodgy and unmovable, can appear unbearable, but the power of student protests has a pristine quality, an energy and an urgency that remains undefeated – especially over time, and...
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Brive International Book Fair
2018/11/09 to 2018/11/11From 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... -
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PEN World Voices Festival
2018/04/06 to 2018/04/22The Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) (President: Kim Sa-in) sponsored author Hwang Sok-yong’s trip to New York for the PEN America World Voices Festival. The internationally-renowned festival takes place each spring and was held this year from April 6 th to the 22 nd with more... -
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The Turin International Book Fair / Korean Literature Event in Milan
2017/05/08 to 2017/05/14In the second week of May, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea, President: Kim Seong-Kon, professor Emeritus at Seoul National University) held a Korean literature event in Milan with author Hwang Sok-yong, and participated in the Turin International Book Fair and hosted a... -
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The Paris International Book Fair
2016/03/17 to 2016/03/20Korea 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... -
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LTI Korea Signs MOU with British Centre for Literary Translation and the National Centre for Writing, Participates in Summer School
2018/07/22 to 2018/07/28LTI Korea Signs MOU with British Centre for Literary Translation and the National Centre for Writing, Participates in Summer School In 2015, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) (President: Kim Sa-in) sponsored the addition of a Korean-English translation course at the annual...
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Introduction Material on KIM UN-SU Republic of Korea / LTI Korea / 2018
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세계가 취한 우리문학 Republic of Korea / 은평역사한옥박물관 / 2017
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Kore Roman, Öykü ve Şiir Antolojisi Turkey / Ministry of Culture,Sports and Tourism / 2017
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2016 한국문학번역원 번역아카데미 특별과정 제8·9기 번역실습 작품집: 서어권 Republic of Korea / Literature Translation Institute of Korea / 2016
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2016 한국문학번역원 번역아카데미 특별과정 제8·9기 번역실습 작품집: 불어권 Republic of Korea / Literature Translation Institute of Korea / 2016