A few snaps from the awesome SiBF 2013. Props to all the organizers. Lots of great booths, even better seminars, and a bunch of authors who were worth seeing, only if for their shocked reactions when a “foreigner” came up to them and asked for their autographs. I’m already looking forward to the Seoul Book…
This is another way (other than that link you see on the right: Where to Start in Korean Modern Fiction) to gain a quick understanding of Korean Modern Literature. That way is to collect the books in the excellent LTI Korea / Jimoondang collaborative series The Portable Library of Korean Fiction. These books are now,…
NOTE: A shorter, Jimoondang, version of this book has been previously reviewed here. Toy City is based on Lee Dong-Ha’s own childhood experiences in a refugee camp in Daegu, although Yun, the main character in the book, is transplanted from the countryside to a refuge camp on a hillside near Seoul. Lee was born in…
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Chi-Young Kim, Kim Young-ha, Lee Dong-Ha, North Korea, Yi Mun-yol, Kyung-ran Jo,I Have the Right to Destroy Myself, Tongue, Toy City. All in one splendid mess!
Shamanism was one of the first powerful forces to mold Korean society, and it has left its mark on Korean literature.
Chi-Young Kim’s translation of Young-Ha Kim’s “Pitǔi Cheguk,” will be called “Your Republic is Calling You.” It will publish, Fall 2001. Chi-Young Kim is also translating Shin Kyung-Sook’s “Please Look After Mom.”
The Portable Library of Korean Literature • Short Fiction • 20 • Jimoondang Publishing • Seoul Lee Dong-Ha’s “A Toy City” tells the story of family moving to the city (having been kicked out of their small town by unnamed political pressures). In the course of this move the narrator’s father, a respected and loved…