Shin Kyung-sook ALSO listed for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

Hot on the heels of Shin Kyung-sook’s victory in the Man Asia Literary Prize, The Independent announced today that her Please Look After Mom has been long-listed for the  Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The Independent describes the award: The ‘Independent’ Foreign Fiction Prize remains not just Britain’s premier honour for modern writing in translation: with…

Found on the Web #20

A few things of some interest, but not worthy of entire posts. • First, HanCinema (in a designation that is amusing to me) labels Shin Kyung-sook “the future of Korean literature.”  It is just possible that there is a more nuanced take on this^^ but nuanced takes aren’t really what this article does: [Interview :…

Sexism in the Korean Literary Establishment?

I’m currently somewhere in between working on pages for the Wikipedia Project and writing a review of the University of Hawai’i’s publication of Questioning Minds, a collection of female writers who span the entire modern history of Korean modern literature. For the purposes of the Wikipedia Project I also have the Who’s Who in Korean…