Once again it is time for the awesome Seoul Book Fair (Wednesday October, 7 through the 11th), and once again the website in English hasn’t bothered to put up the program. So, KTLIT is stepping in to make a quick and dirty translation of the presentation program. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be the same…
Begin a story with a spinster, nearly psychotic, deluded, clearly suicidal chicken. Try to kill her, but let her escape a genocidal murder attempt. Then, have the chicken get involved with someone not only from another culture, but from a different species. Then, kill off that character. Have the chicken raise an orphan from another species,…
The Language Translation Institute of Korea and The British Council in Seoul did a brilliant job of selecting authors for the 2014 London Book Fair (at which Korea was the market focus). The British Council used this opportunity to interview all of the authors, and while these interviews may be found individually through their “news”…
Just a reminder the KTLit has moved part of its focus on Korean literature and Korean authors into the video realm and has begun (with the aid of the 10 Magazine Book club and SeoulABC) to video interviews with Korean authors. Since these are in English and Korean, anyone can listen! Author Kim Young-ha…
A few things found on the web as I hopped around it the last few days.. perhaps the most interesting being in The Guardian Ten Korean writers on a country sawn in half. This is a really interesting read, including as it does include Yi Mun-yol and Hwang Sok-yong, who are really a bit ideologically…
With all the excitement currently fluttering about London’s Book Fair and Korea’s Role as the “star” (as the Guardian puts it!) it is easy to miss all the cool stuff that is happening, and that includes this podcast, rather bluntly titled Korean literature – books podcast, which runs on a little bit long at more…
On March 24th, Korean author Hwang Sun-mi came to the 10 Magazine Book Club (which, if you don’t follow on Facebook, you should) and was interviewed bilingually (well, that means there was an interpreter). The conversation was wide-ranging and frank as Hwang talked a little about the origin of her work The Hen Who Dreamed…
From the Korea Times, coverage of the upcoming London Book fair: Contemporary Korean authors and literature will be on the international spotlight during the London Book Fair 2014 as Korea was chosen as the Market Focus. It shows the nation’s status as one of the top 10 publishing markets in the world and its growing…
KTLIT has been in contact with Oh Jeeyon, from Penguin Books, about Hwang Sun-mi’s upcoming publication of The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly which is scheduled to be released (available on Amazon) on November 26, 2013. Ms. Oh was nice enough to forward to me the following pre-publication information/buzz (which includes that happy news…