SEOUL, May 17 (Yonhap) - South Korean fiction essayist Han Kang won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her novel "The Vegetarian," the coordinator declared Tuesday.
"The tale of a Korean lady who stirs from uneasy dreams to get herself changed into a riddle without a key. Reminiscent and suggestive, 'The Vegetarian' startles for the profundity of its oddness," the coordinator said.
Widely praised and a New York Times smash hit, the novel delineates an advanced Korean life where exasperating repeating bad dreams compel the courageous woman Yeong-hye to drop her dietary patterns and turn into a veggie lover. In a nation where meat, more often than not, is the focal point of dinners and similarity supersedes singularity, her family and spouse, stunned and in dismay, see it as a demonstration of subversion. They attempt to alter her opinion commandingly, and Yeong-hye, thus, turns more disobedient and disengaged.
"The Vegetarian" is her first novel to be deciphered into English. Majoring in Korean Literature at Yonsei University in Seoul, the 45-year-old Korean writer educates experimental writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
Deborah Smith, the 28-year-old interpreter, was monolingual until the age of 21. The British interpreted Han's book "Human Acts," which was distributed early this year by the London-based distributer Portobello books, which likewise distributed "The Vegetarian" in 2015.
"The Vegetarian" was longlisted in March among 155 competitors and got to be one of six books shortlisted a month ago.
She was as of late highlighted broadly in the May issue of "World Literature Today," a bimonthly writing magazine distributed by the University of Oklahoma.
In the magazine, she composed that her novel "portrays a lady who rejects. . .ubiquitous and dubious savagery even at an expense to herself," including that "eating meat, cooking meat, all these every day exercises encapsulate a [version of extreme] viciousness that has been standardized."
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(LEAD) S. Korean writer Han Kang wins 2016 Man Booker Int'l Prize
SEOUL, May 17 (Yonhap) - South Korean fiction essayist Han Kang won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize for her novel "The Vegetarian," the coordinator declared Tuesday.
"The tale of a Korean lady who stirs from uneasy dreams to get herself changed into a riddle without a key. Reminiscent and suggestive, 'The Vegetarian' startles for the profundity of its oddness," the coordinator said.
Widely praised and a New York Times smash hit, the novel delineates an advanced Korean life where exasperating repeating bad dreams compel the courageous woman Yeong-hye to drop her dietary patterns and turn into a veggie lover. In a nation where meat, more often than not, is the focal point of dinners and similarity supersedes singularity, her family and spouse, stunned and in dismay, see it as a demonstration of subversion. They attempt to alter her opinion commandingly, and Yeong-hye, thus, turns more disobedient and disengaged.
"The Vegetarian" is her first novel to be deciphered into English. Majoring in Korean Literature at Yonsei University in Seoul, the 45-year-old Korean writer educates experimental writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
Deborah Smith, the 28-year-old interpreter, was monolingual until the age of 21. The British interpreted Han's book "Human Acts," which was distributed early this year by the London-based distributer Portobello books, which likewise distributed "The Vegetarian" in 2015.
"The Vegetarian" was longlisted in March among 155 competitors and got to be one of six books shortlisted a month ago.
She was as of late highlighted broadly in the May issue of "World Literature Today," a bimonthly writing magazine distributed by the University of Oklahoma.
In the magazine, she composed that her novel "portrays a lady who rejects. . .ubiquitous and dubious savagery even at an expense to herself," including that "eating meat, cooking meat, all these every day exercises encapsulate a [version of extreme] viciousness that has been standardized."
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