Korea: A country of one’s own? Thoughts on Han Kang’s Booker victory.
Last week in a “stop the presses” moment for Korean literature, Han Kang won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her harrowing and brilliant The Vegetarian. Mention should also be made of her excellent translator Deborah Smith who wrote brilliantly literary prose. Han Kang’s achievement immediately became the biggest ‘win’ in Korean translated literature,…