Han Kang

Destination: PyeongChang

February 14, 2018 | Erin Donnelly

photo: republic of korea / flickr “Gleam of ice, and glint of steel, / Jolly, snappy weather; / Glide on ice and joy of zeal, / All, alone, together.” E. E. Cummings, “Skating” The 2...
The great American word mapper, a radio interview with Dubravka Ugrešić, and more

January 20, 2017 | WLT

News, Reviews, and Interviews Last Friday, President Obama spoke about the indispensable role that books played during his presidency and throughout his life. The 2...
Dystopian fiction from the Middle East, 27 years after Tiananmen, and more

June 3, 2016 | WLT

Photo by Wolfram Burner/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews Poet Mai Mang shares these two poems in the wake of the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massac...
Han Kang wins the Man Booker International Prize, the most commonly used words by poets, and more

May 20, 2016 | WLT

Photo by kl801/Flickr News, Reviews, and Interviews South Korean writer Han Kang—featured on the cover of the current issue of WLT—has won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her no...
2016 Man Booker International Prize winner Han Kang featured in World Literature Today’s Summer issue

May 16, 2016 | WLT

World Literature Today congratulates its May 2016 contributor and South Korean author Han Kang for winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literar...
A Nabokov obscure vocabulary quiz, an interview with Hang Kang’s translator, and more

March 11, 2016 | WLT

Photo by Lubos Huska/Pixabay News, Reviews, and Interviews The Quietus interviews Deborah Smith on her work translating Korean author Han Kang and her progress on launching a new publishing...