Han Kang
Future Library opens secret archive of unseen texts in Oslo
David Mitchell, Sjón, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Karl Ove Knausgård join inaugural celebration of project housing works that will remain unseen until 2114
Rosie Goldsmith
14, Jun, 2022 @2:51 PM
Top 10 books about toxic masculinity
The term may be new, but as stories from Homer to Henry James show, the behaviour is anything but
Ani Katz
08, Jan, 2020 @12:17 PM
Han Kang hands over book to remain unseen until 2114
Novelist presented the Future Library manuscript wrapped in a ceremonial cloth as used in South Korean rites marking birth and death
Alison Flood
28, May, 2019 @1:52 PM
Han Kang to bury next book for almost 100 years in Norwegian forest
Prize-winning South Korean author joins Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell as a contributor to Future Library project
Alison Flood
31, Aug, 2018 @8:57 AM
Amy Sackville on the top 10 novels about painters
From an obsessed forger in Perec’s Portrait of a Man to a disturbing project in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, the author of Painter to the King shares her favourite literary works of art
Amy Sackville
18, Apr, 2018 @8:19 AM
Iraqi Frankenstein story shortlisted for Man Booker international prize
Novels from Iraq, South Korea, France, Spain, Poland and Hungary in running for £50,000 prize
Sian Cain
12, Apr, 2018 @6:40 PM
Book clinic: how do you know if a novel has been successfully translated?
Following a controversial English take on a Korean novel, our expert tells you the best way to assess a “good translation”
Sam Taylor
07, Apr, 2018 @12:00 PM
Man Booker International prize longlist: Han Kang up for top gong again
Previous winners Han and László Krasznahorkai nominated for £50,000 award for translated fiction, on a longlist that spans Iraq to Taiwan
Alison Flood
12, Mar, 2018 @2:00 PM
Top 10 books about South Korea
A novelist recommends favourite writing about a country that has undergone a giddying transformation in recent decades
Mary Lynn Bracht
14, Feb, 2018 @12:25 PM
Lost in (mis)translation? English take on Korean novel has critics up in arms
A row over Han Kang’s award-winning novella The Vegetarian highlights the unavoidable difficulties of importing a novel from a very different language – but literal translation too often results in poor books
Claire Armitstead
15, Jan, 2018 @12:23 PM
Han Kang: ‘I was looking for answers to fundamental questions, then I realised so is every writer’
The South Korean novelist on the death of her sister, the transformative power of writing – and how migraines helped
Interview by Hannah Beckerman
17, Dec, 2017 @8:00 AM
Best books of 2017 – part one
‘Funny, outrageous, touching, intimate, gorgeous’ … writers from George Saunders to Ali Smith pick their favourite reads of the past year
25, Nov, 2017 @7:00 AM
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