Greek Lessons: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian

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Chihaya, Sarah (4 May 2023). "A Novel in Which Language Hits Its Limit—And Keeps On Going". The Atlantic . Retrieved May 8, 2023. If Han’s portrait of a woman’s withdrawal most readily calls to mind her 2015 English-language debut The Vegetarian, whose main character mounts a rebellion against her husband, family and society at large by refusing to eat meat, it also has a clear kinship with her later works Human Acts, which told the story of the Gwangju uprising of 1980, and The White Book, a fragmentary account of a writer walking through Warsaw reflecting on the death of her sister as a newborn. Han’s books often feature a meticulous, sustained attempt to describe inner states of being through glassily clear sentences in which sudden, unexpected images burst through. There is a sense of restraint and violence continually being held in balance; an insistence on indeterminacy, as strands of other narratives weave in and out of the story we believe we are being told. Han Kang's 2017 autobiographical novel The White Book centers on the loss of her older sister, a baby who died two hours after her birth. [7] In 2018 Kang became the fifth writer chosen to contribute to the Future Library project. Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son.For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

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Han won the 25th Korean Novel Award with her novella Baby Buddha in 1999, the 2000 Today's Young Artist Award, the 2005 Yi-Sang Literary Award with Mongolian Mark, and the 2010 Dong-ni Literary Award with Breath Fighting. Baby Buddha and The Vegetarian have been made into films. The Vegetarian was turned into a movie that was one of only 14 selections (out of 1,022 submissions) for inclusion in the World Narrative Competition of the prestigious North American Film Fest. The film was also a critical success at the Busan International Film Festival. [17]

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At first, it seems impossible that these two characters, enclosed in their own dwindling worlds, might be able to reach each other. Yet, slowly, they begin to articulate themselves, using a basic grammar of glances, gestures, respectful proximity. Ultimately, when the man breaks his glasses and is rendered sightless, they discover a way to communicate through touch—the tracing of letters with fingertip on palm—that could be read as a gently affirming, even triumphant, reclamation of language. The fractured dialogue created by the book’s alternating sections is finally made whole. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ HAN Kang | The International Writing Program". iwp.uiowa.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-01-03 . Retrieved 2019-03-08.

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On Translating Human Acts by Han Kang - Asymptote". www.asymptotejournal.com . Retrieved 2023-06-23. Filgate, Michele (2023-04-17). "Why 'The Vegetarian' author Han Kang's newly translated novel is her gutsiest yet". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2023-06-23.

Han Kang is the daughter of novelist Han Seung-won. [5] She was born in Gwangju and at the age of 10, moved to Suyuri (of which she speaks affectionately in her novel Greek Lessons) in Seoul. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. [6] Her brother Han Dong Rim is also a writer. She began her published career when five of her poems, including "Winter in Seoul," were featured in the Winter 1993 issue of the quarterly Literature and Society. She made her fiction debut in the following year when her short story "The Scarlet Anchor" was the winning entry in the Seoul Shinmun Spring Literary Contest. Since then, she has gone on to win the Yi Sang Literary Prize (2005), Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. Han has taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and is currently working on her sixth novel. [6] Han has stated that she suffers periodically from migraines, and credits these migraines with "keeping her humble." [7] Work [ edit ] Montgomery, Charles (15 November 2015). "Review of Han Kang's (한강) "The Vegetarian" ". www.ktlit.com. KTLit. Archived from the original on 28 June 2016 . Retrieved 7 April 2016. Han revealed in an interview at the Seoul ABC book club (7 November 7, 2015) that she wrote this work in longhand, because too much keyboarding had injured her wrist. Vegetarian" to Compete at Sundance 2010 @ HanCinema:: The Korean Movie and Drama Database". www.hancinema.net. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019 . Retrieved 13 January 2019.

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a b c "Sunday meeting with Han Kang (한강) author of The Vegetarian (채식주의자), Korean Modern Literature in Translation, 11 June 2013". Archived from the original on 24 December 2013 . Retrieved 11 June 2013. Han Kang on How Language Misses Its Mark". The New Yorker. 30 January 2023 . Retrieved 23 June 2023. a b c "Humans As Plants". english.donga.com. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019 . Retrieved 13 January 2019.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the “visionary” ( New York Times Book Review ) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian Both a disquieting journey about the loss of sense and a return to the sensorium of touch and intimacy, Greek Lessons soars with sensuous and revelatory insight.”—Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings