Join bestselling writer Yu Miri and her translator Morgan Giles as they present Yu’s latest novel to be translated into English, The End of August. In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-Cheol is a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics – but only if he runs under the Japanese flag. Nearly a … [Read More]
Author: Yu Miri
Selected publications by Yu Miri
- The End of August tr Morgan Giles, Tilted Axis 2023
- Tokyo Ueno Station (JR上野駅公園口, 2014) tr Morgan Giles, Tilted Axis 2019
Short stories in anthologies
- Specimens of Families (Kazoku no hyōhon, 1994) in:
Selected titles about Yu Miri
- Anthology: Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin ed Sonia Ryang, Routledge 2000
What have we been reading in 2019? Here are the highs and lows of our reading diary
I alternate my reading, on no systematic basis, between fiction and non-fiction, trying to maintain a balance between keeping up to date with the most important new publications and working through the guilt pile of past publications that I failed to read when they came out. I don’t have time to read much apart from … [Read More]
Upcoming literature and fiction titles for 2019
Here’s my first attempt at compiling a list of fiction and poetry titles coming up in 2019. Let me know what I’ve missed. Unlike my separate list of non-fiction I have not exercised any editorial control here: this is everything I have been able to find. The list is in four parts: Modern and contemporary … [Read More]