Korean Literature in Translation

Books written in Korean and translated into English. Find a new-to-you read and expand your understanding of another culture.
Updated September 19, 2022
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The Vegetarian
Kang Han
Paper Book
FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "[Han Kang's] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life."--The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
The Cabinet
Un-su Kim
Ebook
I'm Waiting for You: And Other Stories
Kim Bo-young
Ebook
The acclaimed South Korean author explores two worlds, four stories, and infinite possibilities in this "breath-taking" speculative fiction collection (Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of  Parasite). Available in English for the first time, this volume presents...
Please Look After Mom
Kyung-Sook Shin
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE * When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal...
Bluebeard's First Wife
Seong-nan Ha
Ebook

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