Han Kang wins French award for foreign literature
This composite photo shows Choi Kyung-ran (R), the translator of South Korean author Han Kang's 2021 novel "I Do Not Bid Farewell," which won the Prix Medicis award for foreign literature in Paris on Nov. 9, 2023. Also pictured is Joachim Schnerf, the book's editor at Grasset, a leading French publishing house. Translated into French under the title "Impossibles Adieux," the prize winner depicts the tragedy of a 1948 civilian massacre on South Korea's southern island of Jeju from the perspectives of three women. (Yonhap)
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