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Tag: LBF Day 3

LBF sketch: the snippets which didn’t quite make it…

posted 17 May 20149 Jan 2021 updated 9 Jan 2021 by Philip Gowman 7 minute read
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Sometimes a discussion session is really interesting and you come out of it thinking you’ve get some really good material; and then when you check your notes later there’s just not enough to do a coherent write-up – or the notes don’t make a lot of sense. Or one session might cover the same ground […]

LBF sketch: Yi Mun-yol on fable and allegory in his work

posted 10 May 201413 Dec 2017 updated 13 Dec 2017 by Philip Gowman 4 minute read
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Yi Mun-yol spoke at three London Book Fair events: on Korean Literature Past and Present at the British Library on 8 April; on Allegory and the Literary Imagination on 9 April; and in conversation with Claire Armitstead on 10 April. The below is a digest of those appearances. Grace Koh: Yi Mun-yol’s debut was Son […]

LBF sketch: Hwang Sok-yong and the burden of history

posted 6 May 201413 Dec 2017 updated 13 Dec 2017 by Philip Gowman 7 minute read
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Like many of his fellow authors at the London Book Fair, Hwang Sok-yong was put to work in at least three events: first at the Free Word Centre on 7 April with author Adam Foulds; then on the first day of the Fair itself he appeared with Pakistani author Kamila Shamsie in a panel session […]

LTI Korea video: Yi Mun-yol in conversation with Claire Armitstead

posted 19 Apr 201413 Dec 2017 updated 13 Dec 2017 by Philip Gowman < 1 minute read
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Here is LTI Korea’s video of Yi Mun-yol in conversation with The Guardian‘s Claire Armitstead at the English PEN Literary Salon, Earls Court on the last day of the London Book Fair 2014, 10 April 2014: Links: LTI Korea website | YouTube channel

London Book Fair, day 3 – looking forward, looking back

posted 11 Apr 201413 Dec 2017 updated 13 Dec 2017 by Philip Gowman 4 minute read
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The London Book Fair is over now, but the collaboration with Korea continues, for which a huge thank-you is due to the British Council and the Literature Translation Institute of Korea. One thing I forgot to mention yesterday is that Britain (or was it the UK?) is invited as guest country at the Seoul Book […]

LBF Cultural Programme events, 10 Apr during the day at Earls Court

event date Thu 10 Apr 2014 posted 28 Feb 201413 Dec 2017
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Here are the Korea-related literature sessions on the final day of the London Book Fair. Free admittance, provided you have a pass to the Fair itself. You can register for one on the London Book Fair website. Looking forward to the translation slam! Adaptations: From Page to Screen 11.30-12.30 Hwang Sun-mi, Yoon Tae-ho and Martin […]

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