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Literature: The Body, the Wound, and the Silence

The films, songs, people and places from this chapter, from official sources.

Watch Nobel Prize
Announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
Han Kang wins the Nobel (Oct 10, 2024)
Open on YouTube ↗
Watch Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize lecture: Han Kang, Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
Han Kang's Nobel lecture, Stockholm 2024
Open on YouTube ↗
Read NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 – Prize announcement ↗
The Nobel citation for Han Kang
www.nobelprize.org
Read The Booker Prizes
Han Kang interview: 'I never imagined The Vegetarian would find so many readers' ↗
The Vegetarian and the 2016 International Booker
thebookerprizes.com
Read The Booker Prizes
Max Porter on publishing The Vegetarian ↗
Deborah Smith's translation reaches English readers
thebookerprizes.com
Read The Booker Prizes
Whale – Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023 ↗
Key novel: Whale (Cheon Myeong-kwan)
thebookerprizes.com
Read The Booker Prizes
Chi-Young Kim interview: 'The characters in Whale felt so familiar' ↗
Translating Whale
thebookerprizes.com
Read The Guardian
South Korean author Cho Nam-joo: 'My book is braver than I am' ↗
Cho Nam-joo and Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
www.theguardian.com
Read LTI Korea Digital Library of Korean Literature
A Woman Goes Missing in Seoul ↗
Key novel: Please Look After Mom
library.ltikorea.or.kr
Read Bloomsbury
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop – reading guide (PDF) ↗
Key novel: Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
www.bloomsbury.com