Familiar Things

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781911617198
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jul 2018
  • Publisher: Scribe Publications
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English

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Hwang Sok-yong was born in 1943 and is arguably Koreas most renowned author. In 1993 he was sentenced to seven years in prison for an unauthorised trip to the North to promote exchange between artists in the two Koreas. Five years later he was released on a special pardon by the new president. The recipient of Koreas highest literary prizes he has been shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger and was awarded the Emile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature for his book At Dusk. His novels and short stories are published in North and South Korea Japan China France Germany and the United States. Previous novels include The Ancient Garden The Story of Mister Han The Guest and The Shadow of Arms. Sora Kim-Russell has translated numerous works of Korean fiction including Hwang Sok-yongs Princess Bari (Garnet Publishing 2015) Familiar Things (Scribe 2017) and At Dusk (Scribe 2018) which was longlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.