The Korea Times celebrated its 55th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards to recognize aspiring translators, which ...

Written by South Korean author Han Kang and translated by British writer Deborah Smith, “The Vegetarian” masterfully explores ...

Chon Soo-yong, the newly appointed president of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea), vowed to take ...

Han Kang's historic win last month as the nation's first writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature set off an explosion ...

The portraits of this year's Nobel laureates were painted by Niklas Elmehed, a Swedish artist who has done this for 12 years.

He received the Nobel Prize in literature in 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate ... the director of AWI and the ...

Growing up amid books — her father is a novelist — she decided to follow in his footsteps but her artistic forays include art and ... power of literature to break barriers. The prize will ...

Julie Sohn is a newcomer in translation, currently living in Seoul with her husband and two sons. Born and raised in Chicago, ...

Dr Elangbam Hemanta SinghContd from previous issueThis novel, The Greek Lessons, 2011; English translation, 2023 is a novel that portrays the lives of two lonely persons-the teacher and his dumb pupil ...

What happened on November 7 in world history? Here are 4 events worth remembering: See them above in our 57-second video, and below for more details! The reported deaths of Butch Cassidy and the ...

When Yannis Ritsos passed away on November 11, 1990, the world of poetry lost one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.

The Vegetarian won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, and Kang has now emerged as the surprise winner of this year’s Nobel prize ... the wave of Korean art and culture that has taken the west by ...