Leading writers to gather at Seoul International Writers’ Festival
Poet Kim Hye-soon, the first Asian woman to win the Griffin Poetry Prize, and Pulitzer-winning poet Forrest Gander will deliver the opening keynote speech of the event.
Poet Kim Hye-soon, the first Asian woman to win the Griffin Poetry Prize, and Pulitzer-winning poet Forrest Gander will deliver the opening keynote speech of the event.
Unlike the clothing, jewellery and food stores that are jam-packed with crowds and bustling with transactions, customers rarely venture to the kiosks selling books.
For the author, the agonising thought of the millions who died – including his parents and his younger brother – was the most challenging part of writing the memoir.
The team were awarded the prize for "using graphic reportage and the comics medium to tell a powerful yet intimate story of the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs”.
“To me, the links between Woolf and Bangla and Bengal–linguistically, philosophically, and poetically, came through by closely reading certain portions of her works”, the…
In tracing how media has brought cricket to the larger masses, the author of the book, ‘Nation, Identity and Politics’ is of the view that cricket is a collective cultural…
The list features titles such as Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of The Day.
A major factor behind the trend is a change in the English-speaking world that has seen more acceptance of translated literature.
Bora Chung's stories were not considered "pure" literature but her life changed when her 2017 collection ‘Cursed Bunny’ caught the eye of translator Anton Hur.
A newly published anthology traces a century of literature from those too often overlooked and reflects the sector's changing landscape.