We just uploaded a Korean novelist Gong Ji-yong‘s story to our website.
Gong Ji-young is at the forefront of the new wave of women writers who rose to the top of the literary tree in Korea in the 1980s and ’90s. We meet a few months after the UK publication of Our Happy Time, her invigorating tale of victimhood, love and redemption, on the eve of her appearance at the Hay Festival. Ably assisted by interpreter Kyeong-Soo Kim, she is open, frank and engagingly mischievous as she discusses big themes like democracy and dictatorship and the nuances of female observation.
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