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Articles by Han Yujoo
Writing from South Korea
April 2014 Image: Do Ho Suh, “Fallen Star,” 2012 © Do Ho Suh. Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego. Photo: Philipp Scholz Rittermann This month we’re spotlighting South Korea. Although the country is among the ten largest book markets in the world, relatively few of its writers have been translated into English, and many emerging writers were largely unknown outside South Korea.
Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
You are browsing: Home Blog Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt 27th October 2021 Just in time for Halloween, Alison Rumfitt publishes her debut novel Tell Me I'm Worthless, a vital work of trans fiction that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors as it examines the devastating effects of trauma and the way fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other. Cutting, disruptive, and darkly funny, this is the kind of inventive, fresh and creepy fiction Halloween readers deserve.
Lament - Words Without Borders
He was fifty-four years old with a sound mind and a body that was rotting away. He died. He wasn’t young enough to have required a specific cause of death, or young enough to cause great sadness. Only a vague sadness existed about death itself. He died at fifty-four years of age, and he had no one who would be sad about his death. There was no one who would remember him. Because he had already died he couldn’t even claim ownership over such people.
The Impossible Fairytale — Tilted Axis Press
By Han Yujoo / Tr. by Janet Hong Winner of a pen heim award The Impossible Fairytale tells the story of the nameless ‘Child’, who struggles to make a mark on the world, and her classmate Mia, whose spoiled life is everything the Child's is not. At school, adults are nearly invisible, and the society the children create on their own is marked by soul-crushing hierarchies and an underlying menace.
Speaking Tiger Books | Big Bhishma in Madras
Summary A chance comment in 1974 fired Peter Brook and Jean-Claude Carrière with the idea of producing a play based on the epic. Together they travelled across India, searching for all possible theatrical forms of the great poem. The result was an epic play—9 hours with two intermissions—later made into a film and a TV series, which has become a landmark in theatre.
We That Summer | Brick
Han Yujoo Translated from the Koreanby Janet Hong Brick 102 Posted on December 12, 2018 We met often that summer. There were still five more years to go until 2020. We had each spent 1999 somewhere else, so we didn’t think we would be together to greet 2020, the moment Space Wonder Kiddy would take over the world. Not that we actually thought he would show up. We didn’t say 2099 or 2100 because we weren’t sure we would be around then.
Five Books: Best Novels of 2017, selected by Arifa Akbar
Arifa Akbar is Head of Content at the publisher, Unbound, and launch editor of its online literary magazine, Boundless . She reviews books for the Financial Times and the London Evening Standard, and is the former literary editor of the Independent, where she worked for 15 years. Arifa Akbar is Head of Content at the publisher, Unbound, and launch editor of its online literary magazine, Boundless .
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