You’ve all read Please Look After Mother by now. What did you think of what is probably the most successful piece of translated Korean fiction ever? If you haven’t read it already, the KCC is granting an amnesty, giving you the opportunity to read it and then discuss it with like-minded people afterwards. It’s part […]
Author: Shin Kyung-sook (page 2)
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Selected publications by Shin Kyung-sook
- Violets tr Anton Hur, Feminist Press, Weidenfeld + Nicolson 2022
- The Court Dancer tr Anton Hur, Pegasus 2018
- The Girl who Wrote Loneliness tr Jung Ha-yun, Pegasus 2015
- I’ll be right there tr Sora Kim-Russell, Other Press 2014
- The Place Where the Harmonium Was (Bi-lingual, Vol 12 – Women) tr Agnita Tennant, Asia Publishers 2012
- Please Look After Mother tr Kim Chi-young, Weidenfeld + Nicolson 2011
Short stories in anthologies
- The Image of Mija in:
Shin Kyung-sook’s I’ll be Right There arrives in time for London Book Fair
Please Look After Mother was a huge hit, so people must be hopeful that Shin Kyung-sook’s forthcoming I’ll Be Right There will be equally as successful. Available on 10 April (according to Amazon) from Other Press, I’m sure we can expect a launch event linked to the London Book Fair (8-10 April). And as Shin […]
Korean authors Shin Kyung-sook and Krys Lee visit Edinburgh Book Fest
We’ve all heard of the Edinburgh International Festival and its fringe; and of the Edinburgh Film Festival. Each year there’s sure to be Korean interest at these events. But this year another festival held at the same time, the Edinburgh Book Festival, together with the World Writers Conference, hosted Korea’s two most famous younger generation […]
Shin Kyung-sook’s acceptance speech for the Man Asian Literary Prize
What could be more appropriate for Mother’s Day? Shin Kyung-sook’s acceptance speech on winning the Man Asian Literary prize for Please Look After Mother: (via Otherwhere)
Shin Kyung-sook nominated for another award
Congratulations to Shin Kyung-sook, nominated for another award for Please Look After Mother: the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 bit.ly/xcJBkZ
Shin Kyung-sook on MAN shortlist
Congratulations to Shin Kyung-sook, whose Please Look After Mother is shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, announced yesterday: http://t.co/hORsoPB9 (Photo: Korea Herald)
Shin Kyung-sook’s book roadshow comes to Europe
The Shin Kyung-sook roadshow arrives on mainland Europe. Please Look After Mother is already in its third print run in Spain. http://bit.ly/m7WUBL #
Please Look After Mother serialised on BBC Book at Bedtime
Those who haven’t got around to reading Shin Kyung-sook’s massively successful Please Look After Mother yet (not that you have any excuse – it’s a very easy and quick read in Kim Chi-young’s translation) can now digest it in very easy chunks before going to bed. It has been abridged and serialised for radio, and […]
Book review: Shin Kyung-sook — Please look after Mother
Kyung-sook Shin: Please look after Mother Originally published in Korean as 엄마를 부탁해, 2008 Translated by Chi-Young Kim Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2011, 272pp Can we ever really appreciate who we have in our lives until they are gone? Kyung-Sook Shin’s Please look after Mother looks through the eyes of a family united in trying to […]
The unstoppable “Please Look After Mother”
Not so long ago people were complaining that the Korean literature available in English translation wasn’t reaching out to a modern audience. Yes, there was a fair amount available, the argument went, but much of it lamented Korea’s travails during the colonial period, or explored the han-laden traumas of national division. Not something of much […]
More buzz about Please Look After Mom / Mother
Please Look After Mom seems to be the latest hot translation. Amazon are already telling me I would like it. http://bit.ly/gPTvD3 # I know which edition I’d buy Guess which translated Korean novel will be BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime in early June. You only get one guess. @KTLit # KTLit: lol “mom?” lklinks: […]