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KTLIT/CATCH THE WAVE Award winner…

Hey! I’m a bad editor as I never actually did post the essays that won the Early Spring, Mid-Summer essay contest. Now, finally, here is the awesome essay by Grace Jung (who turns out to be a skilled translator) that won the book that I have just recently (did I mention that I am lame?)…

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Kim Young-Ha does not make Man Asia Lit shortlist :(

Tonight was the announcement of the shortlist for this year’s Man Asian Literature Prize, which, notably, Shin Kyoung-sook won last year becoming the first Korean and first woman to do so. Kim Young-Ha was long-listed for his book, Black Flower, about which KTLIT said this in our review: Black Flower is a good book. It’s…

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Interview with Poet Kim Hyesoon

Last year, in the course of working on an article on Kim Hyesoon for Yonhap, I was privileged enough to interview poet Kim Hyesoon (about whom you can find more information on Wikipedia, in a page KTLIT put up^^) via email. Special thanks to Joanne Yoon for doing the translation of the questions and KTLIT’s…