South Korean writer Han Kang photographed by Baik Dahum.
Born in South Korea in 1970, Han Kang made her literary debut as a poet in 1993. She has since published novels and short fiction and w…
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Four Asian Voices
What One Leaf TellsIn the wind, questions to heaven bang the white poplar. Answers fracture –a thousand white leaves. A thousand blameless mouths. A thousand. Ten thousand colorless excuses;I pick…
Wang Ping. Photo by Sara RubinsteinWang Ping emigrated to the US from China in 1986 and is currently a professor of English at Macalester College. She is a writer, poet, translator, photographer, and…
The author’s father, Surinder Singh, onboardThe Southampton bound for England, 1958In the wake of her father’s death, a Malaysian author discovers the writer within and ends up writing he…
Han Kang recommends these 13 contemporary Korean books available in English. Click here to read Krys Lee's 2016 interview with Han Kang. Hwang Jeong-Eun One Hundred Shadows Trans.…
Han Kang. Photo by Baik Dahum.What are you currently reading? Victor I. Stoichita’s A Short History of the Shadow …
