North Korean love poetry
Shirley Lee writes for PEN Atlas, in a week when Korea is the Market Focus for London Book Fair 2014
North Korea
North Korea – PEN Transmissions
The suffering healers
Ahead of his appearances with English PEN at the Free Word Centre and London Book Fair 2014, Hwang Sok-Yong takes us into the shamanistic past of Korean culture, and how those creation stories can be used to write about globalisation and modern suffering.
Capturing the mood
In the run-up to the London Book Fair 2014, where South Korea is the market focus, we have the first in a series of pieces from the region: today Chi Young-Kim writes about the varied places translators go to, from baseball blogs to animal fables, when transporting the reader into the world of the novel
Women Writers, Part I
PEN Atlas contributor Krys Lee considers the impact of Kyung-sook Shin's Man Asian Literary Prize win and where Korean women writers stand today
What We Don’t Know About North Korea
This week's PEN Atlas despatch comes from Krys Lee, who takes a look at the literature from (and about) North Korea that is available in English translation.