Kang’s novels offer an important lens for understanding Korean history and politics, and the grief and strength of the Korean people.
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Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories.
Korean literature and art, a terrifying public service film from the 80s, a dramatisation of Trump’s early career and a doc praising a group we should never have forgotten.
Working with Han Kang, I experienced a writer who respected translation as its own process of writing.
Han Kang is the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her work explores mourning, loss and connection, its subjects ranging from family brutality to national uprisings.
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