Saito Mariko, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, announced the Literature Translation Institute of Korea on Thursday.

Japanese translator Saito Mariko has won the Research and Translation category at the 76th Yomiuri Literary Awards for her ...

But the theater of the absurd that Kim underwent could have been surmised even prior to that — at least if you read the novel “Human Acts” (2014) by poet and writer Han Kang, aged 55.

By Han Kang. Translated by e ... She draws inspiration from Korean modernists such as Yi Sang, a poet, and from other accounts of atrocities, such as Primo Levi’s work on the Holocaust.

Among the six works on the shortlist in 2016 was a short novel in three parts, by a 46-year-old poet and creative writing teacher from Korea named Han Kang. The Vegetarian tells the story of a young ...

Han Kang became a celebrity last year when she won ... and so – in her trademark style – she inserts poetry lyrics to deepen particular passages. While her twin translators, E.Yaewon and ...

Han Kang’s latest book ... of years early in her career as a magazine reporter while also working on her poetry and short stories. As she was trying to write her first novel at 26, she rented ...

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “We Do Not Part,” the Nobel laureate Han Kang’s novel about history, tragedy and the work of remembering. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin ...