North Korean love poetry
Shirley Lee writes for PEN Atlas, in a week when Korea is the Market Focus for London Book Fair 2014
Shirley Lee writes for PEN Atlas, in a week when Korea is the Market Focus for London Book Fair 2014
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.