Cover of Kim Joo-Young's Stingray

Review of “Stingray” by Kim Joo-Young (김주영)

Stingray, by Kim Joo-Young (available for pre-order only!), translated by Louis and Inrae You Vinciguerra, is a tricky and ultimately rewarding piece of fiction which begins by taking you one way, in fact a quite traditional way, and then upping the ante by distorting those traditions. As Stingray begins, narrator Se-Young and his mother are…

Nice article in Korea Times about Kor-Lit’s overseas expansion

A nice piece this morning over in the Korea Times titled Korean literature expanding global reach which tracks the initial successes of Korean literature overseas, the redoubtable Hwang Sun-won and Kim Young-ha, through the continued success of translations in many languages including French, Lithuanian, Japan and English (mysteriously, the article shows most of the books…