Mum was an athlete
'When it came to sports, my mum picked up how to do ten things before she was taught a single one': Han Yujoo reports on growing up with an athlete mother, translated by Janet Hong
South Korea
South Korea – PEN Transmissions
The night before
The author of One Hundred Shadows on the Yongsan Disaster, the novel as a song and light that can emerge from darkness.
PEN Atlas Q&A: Korean writers in the limelight
Asia Literary Review managing editor Phillip Kim talks to South Korean authors Cheon Myeong-kwan and Han Yujoo about the rising profile of K-Lit, Korean pop-culture and themes in their work.
How Korean it is
Deborah Smith writes for PEN Atlas about the complex experience of bringing a hit South Korean novel to an English-speaking audience
My Literary Form(s)
In the run-up to London Book Fair 2014, where Korea is the market focus, Han Kang writes about women that turn into plants, the intuitive process in choosing between prose and poetry, and what the future holds for her writing
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
PEN Atlas – One Year On
PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis looks back at a year of dispatches from around the world, and looks forward to more cutting-edge literature, essays and articles in translation in 2013
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.
