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'The White Book' Finds Beauty In Loss
Han Kang has been a familiar name to Korean readers for two decades, but it's only recently that English-speaking audiences have been able to read her work. She made her major American debut in 2016, when the English translation of her novel The Vegetarian was released in the States; the horrifying... -
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I libri tradotti dall’inglese, anche quando non sono stati scritti in inglese
Per diverse ragioni molte case editrici lo fanno ancora: se ne è parlato di recente per la traduzione italiana della sudcoreana Han Kang, fatta dall'inglese L’edizione 2016 del Man Booker International Prize, il più importante premio letterario britannico dedicato alla narrativa straniera tradotta... -
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Sul-coreana Han Kang renova clichês de comédia em 'A Vegetariana'
A paixão muda é a paixão mais angustiante: alguém expande sua interioridade sem compartilhar a dimensão dessa nova intimidade descoberta. Aos poucos, essa paixão muda contagia com pensamentos envenenados as pessoas com quem esse apaixonado divide seu cotidiano. O silêncio dilacera a segurança do... -
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Death, revisited: ‘Where Reasons End,’ by Yiyun Li, and ‘The White Book,’ by Han Kang
There is no shortage of books about coping with death. Joan Didion’s devastating account of the year following the demise of her husband, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” comes to mind. Meghan O’Rourke’s “The Long Goodbye,” a memoir about her then-55-year-old mother’s death on Christmas Day in 2008... -
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Han Kang to bury next book for almost 100 years in Norwegian forest
Prize-winning South Korean author joins Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell as a contributor to Future Library project The world’s most secretive library, currently housed only in the minds of its authors and containing books that will not be read for almost a century, has added a new writer to its... -
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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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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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Han Kang and the Complexity of Translation
The English-language versions of Han’s work have won wide acclaim. Are they faithful to the original?
