Snow is a metaphor throughout her writing. Snow covers over the trauma of political violence and painful memories. It ...

The majority of the books nominated for this year’s International Booker Prize, the prestigious award for fiction translated ...

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The longlist of the International Booker Prize 2025, which ...

The writer arrives in Seoul during the Gwangju massacre, witnessing widespread fear under martial law. Decades later, the ...

If you listen to Republican legislators or groups like Moms for Liberty, you might consider what I have done to be obscene, ...

Only one of the 13 titles nominated for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English is more than 300 pages long ...

Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories.

There’s a strong sense of déjà vu in Han Kang’s We Do Not Part, the first novel in translation since her 2024 Nobel Prize win ...

She connects the victims of atrocities with those who remember. Her novel “We Do Not Part” is now out in an English language ...

The traditional folk dance sogochum, also known as sogo nori, is typically performed with the small handheld drum sogo. The ...

In 2024, for the first time, an Asian woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is Han Kang, South Korean, born in 1970, daughter of the writer Han Seung-won. The Swedish Academy awarded her the ...

Ebrahimi will move to Riverhead Books from Hogarth Books, where she has worked since 2017, and edited such author-winning ...