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Korean fiction: a bold new wave
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The South Korean writer Han Kang is a synecdoche of contemporary Korean fiction in translation today. The 2016 Man Booker International Prize can be singled out as an example of a prize that did for a country’s literary market what prizes manifestly do for an individual author: Provide instant international visibility.
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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 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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The Future of SilenceO Chong-hui / Kim Chi-wŏn / Sŏ Yŏng-ŭn / Pak Wan-sŏ / Kong Sŏn-ok / Han Yujoo / Kim Sagwa / Ch'ŏn Un-yŏng / KIM Ae-ran
/2018These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s–2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us into the homes, families,... -
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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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North StationSuah Bae
/2017"Bae dissolves conventional ¬linear narrative, as though it were impossible for cause and effect to exist concurrently with such repression." —Joanna Walsh, The National A writer struggles to come to terms with the death of her beloved mentor; the staging of an experimental play goes awry; time... -
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RecitationSuah Bae
/2017The meeting between a group of emigrants and a mysterious, wandering actress in an empty train station sets the stage for Bae Suah's fragmentary yet lyrical meditation on language, travel, and memory. As the actress recounts the fascinating story of her stateless existence, an unreliable narrator... -
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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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A Greater MusicBae SuAh
/2016Near the beginning of A Greater Music, the narrator, a young Korean writer, falls into an icy river in the Berlin suburbs, where she's been housesitting for her on-off boyfriend Joachim. This sets into motion a series of memories about life in Berlin, about literature, language, music, and the... -
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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 Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly [Audio Book]Sun-mi Hwang
/2015The 2-million-copy bestselling modern fable from Korea that is winning hearts around the world This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other... -
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The Hen Who Dreamed she Could FlySun-mi Hwang
/2014This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an egg of her... -
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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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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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الكتاب الأبيض
الكتاب الأبيض كتاب لا مثيل له في فكرته وبنائه. إنه تأمل في اللون، في هشاشة وصلابة الروح البشرية ومحاولتنا الدؤوبة لانتزاع حياة جديدة من رماد دمار الماضي. الكتاب الأكثر قربًا من السيرة الذاتية للكاتبة... -
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M-am săturat de tine
Personajul principal, Yukyeong, este o femeie de treizeci și trei de ani despre care toţi cei din jurul ei spun că are fobie de bărbaţi. Este caracterizată de un refuz al căsătoriei ca instituţie, de... -
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Çocuk Geliyor
2016 Uluslararası Man Booker Ödüllü Vejetaryen'in yazarı Han Kang'dan Çocuk Geliyor. 18 Mayıs 1980 Gwangju Kore Bak Coınğ Hi'ye 1979 yılında gerçekleştirilen suikastın ardından yeni iktidar yönetime... -
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Vegjetariania
Fitues i Çmimit Man Booker Prize International Një roman i bukur dhe turbullues për rebelimin dhe tabunë, dhunën dhe erotikën, si dhe metamorfozën ngatërruese të shpirtit Përpara se makthet të... -
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Nauja Man Asian literatūros premija apdovanoto romano „Prašau, pasirūpink mama" autorės knyga! Naujasis Man Asian literatūros premijos laimėtojos Shin Kyung-sook romanas nukelia į XIX amžiaus...
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海外＆日本文学でチョイス！ 2019年、読み逃せない話題の本２０
2019年も時代を映した物語が日本で、海外で、数々生まれた。そこにあるのは物語でありながら私たちの現実でもある。年末年始に読んでおきたい20冊を、本読みのプロが厳選。時代が変わる前にチェック！ 『エル・ジャポン』2月号より。 -
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文学なら世界はONE TEAM！？2019年の海外小説ベスト12
今年、海外の翻訳文学で売れに売れたものといったら、韓国文学でしょう。2018年後半に刊行されたチョ・ナムジュの『82年生まれ、キム・ジヨン』（斎藤真理子／訳）が、最近の翻訳文学では「爆発的」といっていい15万部超のヒット。初版は慎ましく4千部、しかし刷りに刷りを重ね、今年、渋谷のスクランブル交差点に建つビルに、本書の電光掲示広告が流れるのを見たときには、わたしは深い深い感慨に打たれました。(...) -
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From Margaret Atwood to Hanya Yanagihara: the best books of the 2010s, a decade in review
/21 Dec, 2019The end of 2019 offers a double opportunity to review both a year and a decade in books. Covering 12 months is hard enough in our hyperspeed and atomised hi-tech age: what chance for 120? (..) -
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Un Natale da leggere, vendite e consigli a Parma
"Quando penso a tutti i libri che mi restano da leggere, ho la certezza di essere ancora felice": così lo scrittore francese Jules Renard, consapevole del fatto che la vasta e molteplice foresta di libri ancora da esplorare rappresenta uno spazio di libertà e di felicità sempre a portata di mano e... -
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Kang, Han: Bílá kniha
Novinka jihokorejské prozaičky a básnířky Han Kang přichází na český trh po románech Vegetariánka a Kde kvete tráva. Krátká próza nazvaná jednoduše Bílá kniha se však od předchozích dvou titulů zásadně liší. Zatímco první dvě knihy, díky jejichž anglickým překladům pětačtyřicetiletá Kang prorazila...
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The Brooklyn Book Festival
2018/09/10 to 2018/09/17For celebrating the 10th anniversary of Korean Literature Now, English-language quarterly magazine for the promotion of Korean literature, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) participated in the Brooklyn Book Festival from September 10 to 17. On September 12, LTI Korea co-... -
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The International Literature Festival in Dublin
2018/05/19 to 2018/05/27The Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) (President: Kim Sa-in) sponsored author Bae Suah’s participation at the International Literature Festival Dublin in Ireland. Held in Dublin, the UNESCO City of Literature, the International Literature Festival Dublin takes place each spring... -
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Tokyo Literary Events
2018/04/03 to 2018/04/05Author Hwang Jungeun Focus of Tokyo Literary Events The Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) (President: Kim Sa-in) held a publication event for novelist Hwang Jungeun in Tokyo, Japan, from April 3rd to 5th. The event was centered on Amudo Anin (Someone Who is No One), and Savage... -
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BCLT Literary Translation Workshop
2017/07/23 to 2017/07/29Since signing a Memorandum of Understanding in 2015 with the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT)—a prominent supporter of literary translation in the UK—the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) has sent Translation Academy translators to the UK each summer to take part... -
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PEN World Voices Festival
2017/05/01 to 2017/05/07With support from the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea, President: Kim Seong-Kon, propfessor Emeritus at Seoul National University), Korean writers Bae Suah and Han Yujoo participated in the 13th PEN World Voices Festival, held from May 1 to 7. Organized by the PEN American...
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2017 한국문학번역원 번역아카데미 특별과정 제9·10기 번역실습 작품집: 서어권 Republic of Korea / Literature Translation Institute of Korea / 2017
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2017 한국문학번역원 번역아카데미 특별과정 제9·10기 번역실습 작품집: 중어권 Republic of Korea / Literature Translation Institute of Korea / 2017
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2017 한국문학번역원 번역아카데미 특별과정 제9·10기 번역실습 작품집: 영어권 Republic of Korea / Literature Translation Institute of Korea / 2017
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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