I first noticed this at the indispensible Literary Saloon in a post titled International Dublin Literary Award nominations ( Hat tip to the inevitable^^ M.A.Orthofer). The article mentions an award given annually by the Dublin City Council. The list of nominated books has come out, and for those of us who love translated lKorean fiction the results are not…
From the reborn blog “Subject, Object, Verb” comes the news that Pyun Hye-young has won the 38th annual Yi-Sang Literary Prize, for her story, Monsoon. Monsoon tells the story of the difficult relationship between a couple that has lost their child. Pyun Hye-young was chosen by a distinguished panel of judges lead by Seoul National University…
Last year I noted that there were no Korean entrants in the long list for the “Independent Foreign Fiction Prize,” a prize originally given by the British Newspaper The Independent and now administered by Arts Council England. This caused me to go and try to take a longer look, and what I found wasn’t surprising…
For whatever reason (via The Idependent online), no Korean books are in the running for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.