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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Deborah Smith
Just over a week ago, Han Kang was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’. For readers familiar with her work, the win feels like a natural progression in an already celebrated career. Eight years ago in 2016, Han won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, a haunting yet beautiful exploration of shame, desire, and our faltering attempts to understand the lives of others.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
medium.com | Deborah Smith
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
tweakindia.com | Deborah Smith |Sara Hussain
Geography may divide us, but stories unite usIn 2021, Kim Nam-joon, also known as RM of K-pop supergroup BTS, single-handedly changed the fate of an out-of-print book. Days after it was spotted in one of his videos, Early Death, a book about the lives and work of Korean artists who died at a young age, became an instant bestseller and secured a reprint. And that’s how one fandom fuels another.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
broadwayworld.com | Chloe Rabinowitz |Selina Fillinger |Kate Hamill |Deborah Smith
Enter Your Email to Unlock This ArticlePlus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Email:Existing user? Just click login. Trinity Repertory Company has unveiled its 61st season. The season, which includes a five-show subscription series and the theater's iconic retelling of A Christmas Carol, opens in September 2024 and concludes in June 2025.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Deborah Smith |Samanta Schweblin |Megan McDowell
Selva Almada, author of Not a RiverJanuary by Sara Gallardo, translated by Frances Riddle and Maureen ShaughnessyThis is a short novel, written with great intensity and lyricism, about a peasant girl, pregnant from a rape, who doesn’t know how to have an abortion. It was a book written in the 1950s, when the author was just 25 years old, and is her first novel. And it is a book that lacks nothing.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
lrb.co.uk | Ange Mlinko |Deborah Smith |Emily Won
An unnamed man and woman come together, slowly and arduously, over the course of a novel. She is a poet who has turned mute; he is a language teacher going blind. Her first bout of muteness, which struck when she was a teenager, was cured suddenly in French class by a single word: ‘bibliothèque’. Now she is attending classes in Ancient Greek to see if something in the language can dislodge her mysterious impediment.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Portobello Books |Deborah Smith |Bora Chung |Anton Hur
You were the first winner of the International Booker Prize after the rules changed for 2016. How did it feel to win, and what did it mean for you? I wrote The Vegetarian between 2003 and 2005, and published it as a full-length novel in 2007. I remember thinking that it was rather strange (in a good way) to win the International Booker Prize in 2016, more than a decade later.
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Jul 6, 2023 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Portobello Books |John Updike |Deborah Smith |Sarah Waters
In the second episode of The Booker Prize Podcast our hosts – the novelist and critic Jo Hamya and critic and broadcaster James Walton – take a look back at the 2016 International Booker Prize winner, The Vegetarian by Han Kang and translated by Deborah Smith. The Vegetarian – the first of Han Kang’s books to be translated into English – explores shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand each other, as well as what happens when someone refuses to conform to society’s expectations.
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Jul 4, 2023 | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Max Porter |Deborah Smith
Terrifying, shocking, elegant, radical, beautiful, unforgettable. There are many words to describe Han Kang’s International Booker Prize-winning novel, The Vegetarian – and those six words come courtesy of Max Porter, who, together with the team at Portobello Books, commissioned Deborah Smith’s English translation and helped turn the book into a critically-acclaimed bestseller.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Portobello Books |Deborah Smith |Max Porter
Max Porter explains the process behind the publication of The Vegetarian, our July Book of the Month, and why it was essential that it reached readers who might have felt that translated literature was not for them Written by Max Porter Publication date and time: Published July 3, 2023In April 2013, when I was an editor at Granta and Portobello Books, I sat on a panel at London Book Fair to discuss how translators can best communicate with publishers and ‘make their work matter’.
