They've announced this year's winners of the Daesan Literary Awards -- "the largest set of literary prizes at present given in Korea", with category-winners collecting ₩50,000,000 (just over $44,000; see also Rumy Doo's report in The Korea Herald, Mah, Hwang win Daesan literary awards.
Hwang Jung-eun's 계속해보겠습니다 ('Let Me Continue'; see also the Changbi publicity page) took the fiction prize -- "a story of persistence through life's hardships for one's loved ones".
The German translation of Jung Young-moon's Vaseline-Buddha (see the Droschl publicity page) won for best translation; that title isn't available in English yet, but Deep Vellum is bringing it out next summer -- pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Meanwhile, a collection his stories, A Most Ambiguous Sunday, is available in Dalkey Archive Press' Library of Korean Literature series; see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Hwang Jung-eun's 계속해보겠습니다 ('Let Me Continue'; see also the Changbi publicity page) took the fiction prize -- "a story of persistence through life's hardships for one's loved ones".
The German translation of Jung Young-moon's Vaseline-Buddha (see the Droschl publicity page) won for best translation; that title isn't available in English yet, but Deep Vellum is bringing it out next summer -- pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Meanwhile, a collection his stories, A Most Ambiguous Sunday, is available in Dalkey Archive Press' Library of Korean Literature series; see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.