Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. In 1993 she made her literary debut as a poet and was first published as novelist in 1994. Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian and was shortlisted for The White Book, alongside her translator, Deborah Smith. Han has also won the Yi Sang Literary Prize, the Today's Young Artist Award and the Manhae Literary Prize. She taught in the department of creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts for eleven years before leaving in 2018 to focus on writing.
Deborah Smith has translated books by Han Kang and Bae Suah.
She founded Tilted Axis Press in 2015 and is based in north India. e. yaewon is based in Korea and translates from and into Korean. Recent translations include titles by Hwang Jungeun, Jessica Au and Maggie Nelson.
She founded Tilted Axis Press in 2015 and is based in north India. e. yaewon is based in Korea and translates from and into Korean. Recent translations include titles by Hwang Jungeun, Jessica Au and Maggie Nelson.
